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hostel

an inexpensive lodging place for young people; an inn: The students stayed at a youth hostel.

Not to be confused with:

hostile – warlike, aggressive: a hostile takeover; adverse, contrary, unsympathetic: a hostile response

hos·tel

(hŏs′təl)

1. A supervised, inexpensive lodging place for travelers, especially young travelers.

2. An inn; a hotel.

intr.v. hos·teled, hos·tel·ing, hos·tels

To stay at hostels while traveling.

[Middle English, lodging, from Old French, from Medieval Latin hospitāle, hospice, inn; see hospital.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

hostel

(ˈhɒstəl)

1. a building providing overnight accommodation, as for the homeless, etc

2. (Other Non-sporting Hobbies) See youth hostel

3. Brit a supervised lodging house for nurses, workers, etc

4. archaic another word for hostelry

[C13: from Old French, from Medieval Latin hospitāle hospice; see hospital]

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hos•tel

(ˈhɒs tl)

n., v. -teled, -tel•ing (esp. Brit.) -telled, -tel•ling. n.

1. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young travelers.

2. an inn.

v.i.

3. to travel, lodging each night at a hostel.

[1200–50; Middle English (h)ostel < Old French < Medieval Latin hospitāle guesthouse]

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Noun	1.	hostel - a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers auberge, hostelry, inn, lodge caravan inn, caravansary, caravanserai, khan - an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans hotel - a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services imaret - a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey post house, posthouse - an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders roadhouse - an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling
	2.	hostel - inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) student lodging, youth hostel housing, living accommodations, lodging - structures collectively in which people are housed

hostel

noun cheap hotel, YMCA, YWCA, youth hostel, dormitory She spent two years living in a hostel, with no possessions.

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Translations

بَيتُ الشَّبَابُمسْكِن للطلبَه ، دار داخِلِيَّه للطلبَهنَزْل، مَسْكِن للشباب او المتنزِّهين

ubytovnakolejnoclehárna

herbergkollegium=-kollegium

Heim Herberge Wohnheim

ξενώνας νεότητας ξενώνας νέων

albergue albergue juvenil hostal residencia

hostelli

auberge auberge de jeunesse foyer

hostel

szálló

gististaîur; farfuglaheimilistúdentagarîur

ostello pensionato ospizio

ホステル

호스텔

jaunimo nakvynės namai

kopmītne

študentski dom

vandrarhem

หอพักนักเรียน

misafirhane öğrenci yurdu pansiyon yurt

nhà trọ

学生宿舍客栈青年招待所

hostel

[ˈhɒstəl] N → residencia f; (= youth hostel) → albergue m juvenil (Univ) → residencia f de estudiantes

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

hostel

[ˈhɒst^əl] n

(for homeless people) → foyer m

(also youth hostel) → auberge f de jeunesse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

hostel

n (for students, workers etc) → (Wohn)heim nt

vi to go hostelling → in Jugendherbergen übernachten

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

hostel

[ˈhɒst/əl] n (for students, nurses) → pensionato; (for homeless people) → ospizio, ricovero (also youth hostel) → ostello della gioventù

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

hostel

(ˈhostəl) noun

1. a building with simple accommodation, especially for young people, hikers etc. a youth hostel.

2. a building where students etc may live. a nurses' hostel.

hostel

→ بَيتُ الشَّبَابُ ubytovna herberg Heim ξενώνας νέων albergue juvenil, hostal hostelli auberge hostel ostello ホステル 호스텔 jeugdherberg herberge schronisko albergue общежитие vandrarhem หอพักนักเรียน öğrenci yurdu nhà trọ 客栈

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"It left me also in the dark," replied Legrand, "for a few days; during which I made diligent inquiry, in the neighborhood of Sullivan's Island, for any building which went by the name of the'Bishop's Hotel;' for, of course, I dropped the obsolete word 'hostel.' Gaining no information on the subject, I was on the point of extending my sphere of search, and proceeding in a more systematic manner, when, one morning, it entered into my head, quite suddenly, that this 'Bishop's Hostel' might have some reference to an old family, of the name of Bessop, which, time out of mind, had held possession of an ancient manor-house, about four miles to the northward of the Island.

" 'A good glass in the bishop's hostel in the devil's seat forty-one degrees and thirteen minutes northeast and by north main branch seventh limb east side shoot from the left eye of the death's-head a bee line from the tree through the shot fifty feet out.' "

Acting upon this hint, I made the division thus: 'A good glass in the Bishop's hostel in the Devil's seat - forty-one degrees and thirteen minutes - northeast and by north - main branch seventh limb east side - shoot from the left eye of the death's-head - a bee-line from the tree through the shot fifty feet out.' "

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He stopped Alleyne to ask him whether it was not true that there was a hostel somewhere in those parts which was especially famous for the stewing of eels.

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It resulted, then, from this habit that on the said first Monday of April, 1625, the citizens, on hearing the clamor, and seeing neither the red-and-yellow standard nor the livery of the Duc de Richelieu, rushed toward the hostel of the Jolly Miller.

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"Sherry, sir--certainly," said their host, turning to his hostel. "Excuse me if I detain you a few minutes.

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Every house in Mozhaysk had soldiers quartered in it, and at the hostel where Pierre was met by his groom and coachman there was no room to be had.

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It's what you call hostel. The man that can do this miracle can keep hostel.

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ISLAMABAD -- Women studying at the National University of Modern Languages (Numl) are facing a shortage of accommodation after the university, whose students have already been facing a shortage of hostel facilities in this academic session, decided to prioritise accommodation for Chinese students.

Girl students at Numl face accommodation shortage

ISLAMABAD -- Representatives of civil society on Friday demanded the quarters concerned to have a separate well-equipped hostel for disabled working women in the federal capital.

Separate hostel for disabled working women in capital demanded

Qatar Youth Hostels obtained the silver rating of International Youth Hostel Federation for the first time in its history.

Top honour for Qatar Youth Hostels

M2 EQUITYBITES-June 14, 2019-Safestay Acquires Pisa, Italy Hostel for EUR 3.25m

Safestay Acquires Pisa, Italy Hostel for EUR 3.25m

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