A hostess is a female

host A host is a person responsible for guests at an event or for providing hospitality during it. Host may also refer to: Places * Host, Pennsylvania, a village in Berks County * Host Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica People * ...

or presenter of an event. Hostess may also refer to:

Hospitality trades

Air hostess A flight attendant is a member of the aircrew whose primary responsibility is ensure the safety of passengers in the cabin of an aircraft across all stages of flight. Their secondary duty is to see to the comfort of passengers. Flight attenda ...

, a flight attendant * A female

maître d' (spelled according to post-1990 spelling rules) is a commonly used honorific for lawyers, judicial officers and notaries in France, Belgium, Switzerland and French-speaking parts of Canada. It is often written in its abbreviated form ''Me'' o ...

at a restaurant * An employee at a

hostess club A hostess club is a type of night club found primarily in Japan which employs mostly female staff and caters to men seeking drinks and attentive conversation. Host clubs are a similar type of establishment where mostly male staff attend to women. ...

Bargirl A bargirl is a woman who is paid to entertain patrons in a Bar (establishment), bar or nightclub. Variants on the term include "B-girl" and "juicy girl". Many bargirls work as a bar hostess, engaging individual customers in conversation. They m ...

, a paid, female companion offering conversation and, in some cases, sex *

Taxi dancer A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a ballroom dance. Taxi dancers work (sometimes for money but not always) on a dance-by-dance basis. When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during the early 20th century in the United State ...

, a paid, female dancing partner

Product brands

Hostess Brands Hostess Brands Inc. is an American bakery company formed in 2013. Its main operating subsidiaries are Hostess Brands, LLC, and Voortman Cookies Limited. The company owns several bakeries in the United States that produce snack cakes under the ...

, a U.S.-based bakery company formed in 2013 *

Hostess Potato Chips Hostess, also known as Munchies from 2024, is the name of a potato chip brand that was the leading brand in Canada for many years after its creation in 1935. During its heyday, they fended off any attempt to displace them from their commanding p ...

, a former Canadian brand owned by Frito-Lay *

Hostess Entertainment , DBA Unlimited, is a Japanese independent music company that represents Western alternative artists and labels in Japan, such as the Beggars Group (4AD/ XL/Matador/ Rough Trade), Domino Records, V2 Records, Brassland, Virgin Music Label & Art ...

, Japanese music company *

Hostess (snack cakes) Hostess Cake, mostly known simply as Hostess, is a brand under which snack cakes are sold by Hostess Brands. The brand originated in 1919 when the first Hostess CupCake was sold. However, it is better-known as the brand under which Twinkies ar ...

, a brand of snack cakes owned by Hostess Brands

Other

* "Hostess" (short story), by American writer Isaac Asimov *

Hostess House The Hostess House is a historic house in Palo Alto, California. It was built in 1918 by the YWCA for members of the United States Army to meet their relatives while they were still serving in World War I. With The Hostess House was originally lo ...

, a 1918 house in Palo Alto, California, U.S. * ''The Hostess'', a 1995 episode 43 of British television series ''Keeping Up Appearances'' *"Hostess", song by Rudimental from '' Ground Control'', 2021

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