Meaning

Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
2. A tavern.
3. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
4. (British, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
5. (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
6. (obsolete, intransitive) To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To lodge or house (someone or something).

Example Sentences

[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.

the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns

Leicester Inn

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.

We inned at the signe of the Swan.

I never innd in the Towne but once.

Word Forms

• inns
• inning
• inned

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Use inn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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