hostel — English Dictionary

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hostel

Pronunciations (8)

Noun

An overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

Examples

a rundown hostel

More examples (2)

The rest, around the hostel fire, / Their drowsy limbs recline; / For pillow, underneath each head, / The quiver and the targe were laid: / Deep slumbering on the hostel floor, / Oppressed with toil and ale, / they snore: […]

The excitement was palpable for believers and non-believers alike. Next, Francis declined to move into the gilded papal apartment vacated by his predecessor. Instead he was going to remain in the small room in the Santa Marta hostel in the Vatican where he had stayed during the conclave.
A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
Usage
- not US
A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
Usage
- Obsolete
Examples

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There are also in Oxford certeine hostels or hals, which may rightwell be called by the names of colleges , if it were not that there is more libertie in them , than is to be seen in the other
A public hotel.
Usage
- Obsolete
Examples

More examples (1)

Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way.
A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.
Usage
- South-Africa
- South-Asia

Word forms

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