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hostel

noun
/ˈhɑstəl/US/ˈhɒstəl/UK/ˈhɔsʈəl/

Etymology

From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Not in use from late 17th c. (in the usual sense from mid 16th c.) to 1808, when it was revived by Walter Scott in his poem Marmion (see the quotation).

  1. derived from hospitalis — “hospitable”
  2. derived from hospitale — “hospice”
  3. derived from hostel
  4. inherited from hostel

Definitions

  1. A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities,…

    A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

    • a rundown hostel
    • The rest, around the hostel fire, / Their drowsy limbs recline; / For pillow, underneath each head, / The quiver and the targe were laid: / Deep slumbering on the hostel floor, / Oppressed with toil and ale, / they snore: […]

  2. A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.

  3. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

    • There are also in Oxford certeine hostels or hals, which may rightwell be called by the names of colleges , if it were not that there is more libertie in them , than is to be seen in the other
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A public hotel.

    2. A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.

    3. To stay in a hostel during one's travels.

    4. To lodge (a person) in a hostel.

The neighborhood

Derived

bail hostel, hosteler, hosteller, hostelite, hostelry, poshtel, probation hostel, youth hostel

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA