A plain, cheap building that puts a roof over people who are not at home — a bed, often a hot meal, shared with strangers, and meant for a short stay rather than a life.
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hostelnoun/ˈhɑstəl/
- 1
An overnight lodging place for travelers, 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: […]
- 2
A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
- 3
obsoleteA 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
- 4
obsoleteA 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.
- 5
A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.
hostelverb/ˈhɑstəl/
- 1
To stay in a hostel during one's travels.
- 2
To lodge (a person) in a hostel.
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