hostel
A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
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Born ~1808 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
"One witness told the trial that during a trip to Barcelona with Young Scots for Independence, the SNP’s youth wing, Linden had climbed into his bunk at a youth hostel and started caressing him and trying to kiss his…
Very, very scary and of course, to diagnose, because no one would be assuming poison, let alone that kind of nerve agent I watched the whole lot on streaming Remember the couple who lived in a hostel I think. He fou…
i don't know exactly where i want my fashion to be, but my earliest memory of gender envy was at 5 years old, hearing my mom talk about getting mistaken for a guy at her all girls catholic hostel
BBC News - 'We'd rather live in a tent than a homeless hostel' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump’s obsession with a song about having anonymous gay sex in a midtown Manhattan mens hostel is weird.
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A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
a rundown hostel
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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…
“"One witness told the trial that during a trip to Barcelona with Young Scots for Independence, the SNP’s youth wing, Linden had climbed into his bunk at a youth hostel and started caressing him and trying to kiss his neck."”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Very, very scary and of course, to diagnose, because no one would be assuming poison, let alone that kind of nerve agent I watched the whole lot on streaming Remember the couple who lived in a hostel I think. He found perfume in a bin and gave it to his girlfriend”
— Bluesky· May 2026“i don't know exactly where i want my fashion to be, but my earliest memory of gender envy was at 5 years old, hearing my mom talk about getting mistaken for a guy at her all girls catholic hostel”
— Bluesky· May 2026“BBC News - 'We'd rather live in a tent than a homeless hostel' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Trump’s obsession with a song about having anonymous gay sex in a midtown Manhattan mens hostel is weird.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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