Pronunciations (2)
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/ɪn/
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ɪn
Noun
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
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[H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
A tavern.
One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
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the Inns of Court the Inns of Chancery Serjeants’ Inns
The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
Usage- UK usage
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Leicester Inn
A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
Usage- Obsolete
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But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.
Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.
Verb
To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
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But where do you intend to inn to-night?
We inned at the signe of the Swan.
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I never innd in the Towne but once.
John Welch, Cornish Carrier, who formerly Inn'd at the Mermaid in Exon, is now removed to the Bear-Inn.
I inned at the best house, the Star and Garter.
To lodge or house (someone or something).
Usage- Obsolete
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I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone.
These Inn'd themselves all Night in Knights-bridge Fields.
Noun
a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
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