Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A public lodging house serving food and drink to travelers; a hotel.
- n. A tavern or restaurant.
- n. Chiefly British Formerly, a residence hall for students, especially law students, in London.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A house; a dwelling; a dwelling-place; an abode.
- n. Habitation; abode; residence.
- n. A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers; in law, a public house kept for the lodging and entertainment of such as may choose to visit it, and providing what is necessary for their subsistence, for compensation; a tavern; a public hotel. In consequence of thus holding out the house as a place of public entertainment, the keeper comes under obligation to serve all comers, and to answer, within restrictions provided by the law, for the safety of their property.
- n. A college or building in which students were lodged and taught: now retained only for the Inns of Court, in London. See below.
- n. The town residence of a person of quality; a private hotel: as, Leicester Inn.
- n. The precincts or premises occupied by these societies respectively. They are the Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn. The first two originally belonged to the Knights Templars, whence the name Temple.
- n. Synonyms Hotel, House, etc. See tavern.
- To furnish entertainment and lodging to; place in shelter.
- To take up lodging; lodge.
- An obsolete form of in.
Wiktionary
- n. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
- n. A tavern.
- v. obsolete To house; to lodge.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
- n. A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.
- n. engraving The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
- n. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers
- v. rare To take lodging; to lodge.
- v. obsolete To house; to lodge.
- v. To get in; to in. See In, v. t.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
Etymologies
- Old English inn. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English; see en in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I had a choice of inns there (if one used the term inn in its loosest sense), and I chose the place with the attempt at flowers near the entrance.”
“Great hosts and the "inn" is just so perfect for a base of travel in and around Oaxaca.”
“All the water throughout the inn is purified for safety.”
An oasis of comfort in Ajijic: Casa del Sol Bed and Breakfast Inn
“The inn is the best-looking place I have ever been to.”
“The inn is gone but the Beachwood Yacht Club still exists, although not in the original building.”
“The inn is the pet project of Canadian construction magnate Cliff Lede (that's his eponymous winery directly below) and takes its name from his top red blend, also called Poetry.”
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“The inn is in the village of Stretton, just off the A1 in that part of Rutland that is more like Lincolnshire in character.”
“The next day, we took a long ski tour on the East Pasture Loop, and, returning to the inn from a different direction, we were confronted by yellow crime scene tape.”
“It will be understood that the word inn-keeper is here employed in a restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class.”
“I protest it was the word inn set me off — and here is one, the “Hotel de Belle Vue,” at the Hague, as comfortable, as handsome, as cheerful as any I ever took mine ease in.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inn’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, I
irenic, inimical, ignotism, infrangible, internecine, illumine, ingot, imposter, iconoclast, indefeasible, indefatigable, impingement and 184 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Noodle, Nugget, Butter, Soft, Snug, Feather, Socks, Knit, Mug, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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ADW2
nudnik, temper, intercalate, cleave, scowl, chapfallen, malapropos, disport, annals, paean, paradisiacal, whet and 362 more...
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MISSGIVEN TITLES
words that i might put in my projects's titlte
medium, effigy, cineclub, ∞, guide, biscuit, voodoo, friends, spirit, palindrome, premium, minimus and 73 more...
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fibrous words
good strong words that create distinct images and feelings
tuneful, usher, fibrous, trinket, dollop, tinker, besmirch, simper, urge, scrawny, shrivel, slake and 69 more...
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the castle and its surrounds
labyrinth, throne room, moat, dais, throne, scullery, court, tunnel, vault, mausoleum, crypt, dungeon and 43 more...
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Places For Eating And Drinking
slap-bang, bistro, speakeasy, tavern, brasserie, cafe, bar, restaurant, osteria, diner, shebeen, trattoria and 6 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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Room At The Inn
Words to do with hotels, inns, resorts, guesthouses ... broad in scope :-)
no-show, guesthouse, booking, room, single, double, triple, restaurant, concierge, laundry service, turn-down, porter and 81 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (I)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
ichor, icicle, icing, igloo, illusion, immortal, incense, indigo, infinity, initiate, inn, intrinsic and 25 more...
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Tweets
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johnmperry It's more like a public house (UK = "pub"; other folk = bar) that offers accommodation of some sort. Not as upmarket as a hotel. Jun 18, 2008
rolig I really like this word, but I'm not sure why. Maybe because it's short and simple and sounds cozy. I do recognize, however, that it enables countless cutesy punny names like The Dewdrop Inn. Dec 7, 2007