Hostess

A hostess is a female host or presenter of an event.

Hostess may also refer to:

Hospitality trades

 * Air hostess, a flight attendant
 * A female maître d' at a restaurant
 * An employee at a hostess club
 * Bargirl, a paid, female companion offering conversation and, in some cases, sex
 * Taxi dancer, a paid, female dancing partner

Product brands

 * Hostess Brands, a U.S.-based bakery company formed in 2013
 * Hostess Potato Chips, a former Canadian brand owned by Frito-Lay
 * Hostess Entertainment, Japanese music company
 * Hostess (snack cakes), a brand of snack cakes owned by Hostess Brands

Other

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