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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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. 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. To take lodging; to lodge.
- v. 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
- Middle English, from Old English; see en in Indo-European roots.
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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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Hungarian Realia
Topical and traditional cultural assets from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used ...embroidered felt ..., golden stick, anti-gypsyism, limekiln, civic party, graft, gratitude money, farmstead, inn, gypsy raider, lever well, herdsman’s whip and 185 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
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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