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Hostel
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- 1 A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
"a rundown hostel"
- 2 inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) wordnet
- 3 A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
- 4 a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers wordnet
- 5 A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. obsolete
"There are also in Oxford certeine hostels or hals, which may rightwell be called by the names of colleges , if it were not that there is more libertie in them , than is to be seen in the other"
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- 6 A public hotel. obsolete
"Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way."
- 7 A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students. South-Africa, South-Asia
- 1 To stay in a hostel during one's travels. intransitive
- 2 To lodge (a person) in a hostel. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Not in use from late 17th c. (in the usual sense from mid 16th c.) to 1808, when it was revived by Walter Scott in his poem Marmion (see the quotation).
From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Not in use from late 17th c. (in the usual sense from mid 16th c.) to 1808, when it was revived by Walter Scott in his poem Marmion (see the quotation).
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