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Meaning of Hostler | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈ(h)ɒs.lə

Definitions

  1. A worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses.
  2. A surname.
  3. A railway worker employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine; especially, a yard jockey.
    US, broadly

Equivalents

العربية السّائس سائس
Azərbaycanca mehtər
Български коняр
Bosanski коњушар
Français palefrenier
עברית סיס
Hrvatski коњушар
Kurdî seyîs
Latina agaso
Македонски коњар коњушар
Nederlands staljongen
Српски коњушар
Svenska värdshusvärd
Türkçe makinist seyis
Українська конюх

Examples

“As the chaise drove through Clavering, the hostler standing whistling under the archway of the Clavering Arms, winked the postilion ominously, as much as to say all was over.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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