Hostel

Quick meaning: Hostel is a noun meaning A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

Meaning

A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

More Meanings

1. (not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
2. (South Africa, South Asia) A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.
3. (intransitive) To stay in a hostel during one's travels.
4. (transitive) To lodge (a person) in a hostel.
5. (obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
6. (obsolete) A public hotel.

Example Sentences

a rundown hostel

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

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: […]

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.

Word Forms

• hostels
• hosteling
• hostelling
• hosteled
• hostelled

Synonyms for hostel

Depending on context, synonyms include hostelry, inn, lodge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inn, hostelry, lodge, accommodation, lodging, motel.

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