Inn
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
"[H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn."
- 2 Initialism of international nonproprietary name. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 3 a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers wordnet
- 4 A tavern.
- 5 One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
"the Inns of Court the Inns of Chancery Serjeants’ Inns"
Show 2 more definitions
- 6 The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person. British, dated
"Leicester Inn"
- 7 A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode. obsolete
"But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke."
- 1 To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself. intransitive, obsolete
"But where do you intend to inn to-night?"
- 2 To lodge or house (someone or something). obsolete, transitive
"I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone."
- 1 A right tributary of the Danube in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"Hungry and thirsty, we at last reached the inn."
Etymology
From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).
Related phrases
More for "inn"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.