hostel

About 1.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

   a rundown hostel

2. noun A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
3. noun A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
4. noun A public hotel.
5. noun A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.
6. verb To stay in a hostel during one's travels.
7. verb To lodge (a person) in a hostel.

Similar words

youth hostel inn hostelry lodge student lodging accommodation lodging motel dormitory guesthouse

Often followed by

for in and is at was accommodation or of

Word family

hosteled hosteling hostelled hostelling hostels youth hostel