n. A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel
n. A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food
n. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. An inn.
n. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A house of entertainment; an inn.
n. 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.
n. Lodging.
To harbor; shelter.
To take lodging; lodge; put up.
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n. inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)
n. 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."