Sekirov Dictionary

hostel

UK /ˈhɒstəl/US /ˈhɑstəl/

noun 5
verb 2
forms 5

noun5

An overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
(South-Africa) A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.
(no longer used) A public hotel.
•
(no longer used) 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 — 1577

verb2

To stay in a hostel during one's travels.
To lodge (a person) in a hostel.

forms

hosteled · hostelled · hosteling · hostelling · hostels

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