hostel

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/ˈhɑstəl/

noun 5verb 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

refugee, student, youth | bed and breakfast

bail, probation

Young people on probation sometimes stay at a hostel while they complete their community service.

VERB + HOSTEL

stay at/in

During our backpacking trip across Europe, we stayed at youth hostels in five different countries.

HOSTEL + NOUN

accommodation

PREP

at a/the ~

My friends and I booked rooms at a hostel near the beach for our summer vacation.

in a/the ~

During her gap year, Sarah stayed in a hostel while traveling through Southeast Asia.

Definitions

noun

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.

verb

To stay in a hostel during one's travels.

To lodge (a person) in a hostel.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

a rundown hostel

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

Is there a youth hostel near here?

Tatoeba · #1662

Is there a youth hostel around here?

Tatoeba · #568302

Some insist that the Spanish hostel is a pornographic film.

Tatoeba · #702818

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, hostel is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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