how to pronounce hostess

/ˈhəʊ.stɛs/

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hostess is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of hostess in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… gracious hostess things went well until …”

meaning of hostess

Hostess is a woman who entertains guests in a private home.

hostess frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word hostess occurs in english on average 4.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics hostess can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that hostess can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;