Hostel

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hostel \Hos"tel\, n. [OE. hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel, LL.
     hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. hospitalis. See {Hospital}, and
     cf. {Hotel}.]
     1. An inn. [Archaic] --Poe.
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              So pass I hostel, hall, and grange.   --Tennyson.
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     2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.]
        --Holinshed.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hostel
       n 1: a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn: {hostelry},
             {inn}, {lodge}]
       2: inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on
          bicycling trips) [syn: {youth hostel}, {student lodging}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "hostel":
     boardinghouse, dorm, dormitory, doss house, fleabag, flophouse,
     guest house, hospice, hostelry, hotel, inn, lodge, lodging house,
     ordinary, pension, posada, pub, public, public house, roadhouse,
     rooming house, tavern