Hostel

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hostel
    n 1: a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn:
         {hostel}, {hostelry}, {inn}, {lodge}, {auberge}]
    2: inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on
       bicycling trips) [syn: {hostel}, {youth hostel}, {student
       lodging}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            So pass I hostel, hall, and grange.   --Tennyson.
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   2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.]
      --Holinshed.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "hostel":
      boardinghouse, dorm, dormitory, doss house, fleabag, flophouse,
      guest house, hospice, hostelry, hotel, inn, lodge, lodging house,
      ordinary, pension, posada, pub, public, public house, roadhouse,
      rooming house, tavern
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