Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A supervised, inexpensive lodging place for travelers, especially young travelers.
- n. An inn; a hotel.
- v. To stay at hostels while traveling.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A house of entertainment; an inn.
- n. In English universities, a house for students which does not share like a college in the government of the university. There are still several hostels in Cambridge.
- n. Lodging.
- To harbor; shelter.
- To take lodging; lodge; put up.
Wiktionary
- n. A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel
- n. not US A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food
- n. obsolete A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Archaic An inn.
- n. obsolete A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
WordNet 3.0
- n. inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)
- n. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English reinforced by Old French (h)ostel, from Late Latin hospitale ("hospice"), from Classical Latin hospitalis ("hospitable") itself from hospes ("host") + -alis ("-al"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, lodging, from Old French, from Medieval Latin hospitāle, hospice, inn; see hospital. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Forming the heart of this Sydney village is the While the term hostel might at one time have connoted a grungy and / or antiseptic (albeit cheap) accommodation in an inconvenient part of town, thanks to a number of overnight-stay innovators the hostel is no longer something at which travelers can scoff.”
“These kinds of large dormitory establishments with common showers and toilets still serve many younger travelers, however, the term hostel now also refers to more traditional hotel-like properties whose rooms have been reconfigured to hold four beds (two sets of bunk beds) that are rented out individually.”
“When the Gujarati TTS voice spoke for the first time, it was 3 AM, but I did a little dance in hostel My laptop gave me a lot of problems over the last few days, including a hard disk crash 3 days before the project submission.”
“The hostel is built like any house, subjected to the same demands on climate control and isolation.”
“Tiffin-the meal - was my very favorite of the 4 meals served in hostel here, served at 4 pm.”
““I attend pujas in hostel when I have to .. when there is free food””
“I attend pujas in hostel when I have to, or when there is free food.”
“Our hostel is surrounded by shopping malls and gas stations.”
“The word hostel and other similar words have the same roots as hospital.”
“All that said the hostel is very clean, staff very friendly and there is a good range of facilities in the hostel.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hostel’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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miserable circumstances
describing living arrangements from the less-than-stellar, to the sordid
burrow, garret, ghetto, hovel, hut, lean-to, cavern, shack, shanty, shed, slum, tenement and 59 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Temporary Lodging
Hotels, inns, and the like.
hotel, resort hotel, holiday resort, motor hotel, tourist court, motel, inn, lodge, ski lodge, motor lodge, motor inn, resort and 52 more...
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Stranger's Words XENO-tropes
hostile, hospitable words (many based upon the IE root (g)hosti-) and reactions to the stranger and other words about the qualities of the strange (unfamiliar).
guest, gastarbeiter, host, hostile, hospice, hospitable, hospital, hospitality, hostage, hostel, hostler, xenia and 14 more...
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bobman's Words
axiomatic, whisk, turn, incorporate, enjoin, debone, fold, desertification, combine, crunch, schadenfreude, truth and 4 more...
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