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Hostler

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.

Equivalents

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Azərbaycan dilimehtər
Българскиконяр
עבריתסיס
Kurdîseyîs
Македонскикоњаркоњушар
Nederlandsstaljongen
Српскикоњушар
Українськаконюх

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

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