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/ˈhɑstəl/ · noun
A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel..
a rundown hostel
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: […]
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
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.
Use hostel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hostel means A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel..
Common synonyms include hostelry, youth hostel, student lodging, inn.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a rundown hostel
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