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HOSTEL
hostel, youth hostel, student lodging
(noun) inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)
hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge
(noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hostel (plural hostels)
A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel
(not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food
(obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
Synonyms
• See also lodging place
Verb
hostel (third-person singular simple present hostels, present participle hostelling or hosteling, simple past and past participle hostelled or hosteled)
to stay in a hostel as part of a travel
Anagrams
• Holtes, Lhotse, Tholes, helots, hotels, hĂ´tels, loseth, shotel, tholes
Source: Wiktionary
Hos"tel, n. Etym: [OE. hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel, LL. hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. hospitalis. See Hospital, and cf. Hotel.]
1. An inn. [Archaic] Poe. So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. Tennyson.
2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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