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    A hostess is a woman who welcomes and looks after guests. This can be at a private party (the female version of 'host'), at a restaurant (the person who greets you and shows you to your table), or - in older use - on an airplane, where 'air hostess' used to be the common word for a female flight attendant.

    女主人；(餐廳)女接待員；(舊)空中小姐

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組成'Host' + '-ess' (an ending that used to mark a female version of a job or role).

同家族的字

  • hostthe root word this is the female form of
  • actressshares the ending '-ess', an older female-role suffix

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

hostessnoun/ˈhoʊstɪs/

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    A female host.

    • The host and hostess greeted their guests at the door.
    • The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
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    A female innkeeper.

  • 3

    Stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane.

  • 4

    A bar hostess or bargirl; a paid female companion offering conversation and in some cases sex.

  • 5

    A female prostitute.

hostessverb/ˈhoʊstɪs/

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    To host, as a woman.

    • Later in January, the alum club hostessed the initiation brunch at the Pi Beta Phi chapter house. It was thrilling to see so many girls with such enthusiasm!
    • Over the years she has maintained a close relationship with several former students. Currently, she alternates between visiting and hostessing two in Roanoke and Greenville, N.C., respectively, and is a proud godgrandmother to one’s new baby.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。