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

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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, hôtels, loseth, shotel, tholes

Source: Wiktionary

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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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