Hostel - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Hostel :  (noun)
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]

Based on WordNet 2.0

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.

So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. --Tennyson.

2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] --Holinshed.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)

Example Usage of Hostel

jroood: just applied for an assistant manager position at a Hostel in Hollywood. hope they hire my ass!
zuzufalta: @danielleto and bro hej!! i just wanted to ask you ..where in london do u live? in some kind of Hostel ? with friends or ???
elmangu: Stay Inexpensively At A New York Hostel: The Bronx is to the north, and is home to Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo... http://bit.ly/4s0bAx
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