hostel

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: […]

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

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

A public hotel.

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 Quin promptly led the way.

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

To stay in a hostel during one's travels.

To lodge (a person) in a hostel.