Hostel

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  • noun. A supervised, inexpensive lodging place for travelers, especially young travelers.
  • noun. An inn; a hotel.
  • intransitive verb. To stay at hostels while traveling.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To harbor; shelter.
  • To take lodging; lodge; put up.
  • noun. A house of entertainment; an inn.
  • noun. In English universities, a house for students which does not share like a college in the government of the university. There are still several hostels in Cambridge.
  • noun. Lodging.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An inn.
  • noun. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel
  • noun. A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food
  • noun. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)
  • noun. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
  • Word Usage
    "Forming the heart of this Sydney village is the While the term hostel might at one time have connoted a grungy and / or antiseptic (albeit cheap) accommodation in an inconvenient part of town, thanks to a number of overnight-stay innovators the hostel is no longer something at which travelers can scoff."