Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913 Hosteler Hos′tel·er (·ẽr), n. [See Hostel, and cf. Hostler.] 1. The keeper of a hostel or inn. 2. A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Fuller. ‹ Hostel Hostelry ›