hostel

ˈhɑstəl

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#1·6h ago

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

a rundown hostel

Origin: From , from , ostel, from , from Classical itself from hospes + -alis. . 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). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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(not, _, US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.

Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel…

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(obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

The excitement was palpable for believers and non-believers alike. Next, Francis declined to move into the gilded papal apartment vacated by his predecessor. Instead he was going to remain in the small room in the Santa Marta hostel in t…

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