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Spell Bee Word: Hostess


What does hostess mean?

Word: Hostess

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Hostess means a woman who invites guests and looks after them, or a woman who welcomes customers in a restaurant or on a plane.

Antonyms: guest

How do you spell hostess?

Syllables: host - ess

Tricky part: The ending is ess, with a double s. Dropping one s at the end is the usual slip.

Watch out for: hostiss, hostesse, hoastess

Memory tip: Count the s letters as you write: one in the middle, two together at the end, three in all.

Hostess in a sentence

Example 1: Our hostess served hot soup to everyone who came in from the rain.

Example 2: Aunt Rekha is a cheerful hostess who remembers every guest's name.

Example 3: The restaurant hostess led us to a table by the window.

Fun Fact

Air hostess was the usual name for the job decades ago; most airlines now say cabin crew or flight attendant, which covers men and women.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Select the masculine form of the word:

hostess

a) hosteller
b) ghost
c) hostman
d) host

Show answer

d) host. Remove ess and host is left; ghost only looks alike.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

hosttess

a) s
b) t
c) e
d) o

Show answer

b) t. Only one t comes before the double s.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) hostess
b) emprass
c) lionees
d) waitres

Show answer

a) hostess. Waitress, lioness and empress have each lost or changed a letter here, so hostess is the only correct one.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is the hostess of a party most likely to say?

a) Welcome, please come in.
b) Can I take some cake home?
c) Thank you for inviting me.
d) Sorry I am so late.

Show answer

a) Welcome, please come in.

2. Which of these words names a woman, as hostess does?

a) address
b) actress
c) progress
d) mattress

Show answer

b) actress

Associated Words

Words that end in -ess: headmistress, useless, pointless, duchess, priestess, restless

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: guest

More words from this list

meanwhile, positive, scary, thunderstorm, acceleration, bride, defy, essay

Next steps

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