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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers;
[syn: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge]

2. inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips);
[syn: hostel, youth hostel, student lodging]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hostel \Hos"tel\, n. [OE. hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel, LL. hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. hospitalis. See Hospital, and cf. Hotel.] 1. An inn. [Archaic] --Poe. [1913 Webster] So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] --Holinshed. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hostel n 1: a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge] 2: inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) [syn: hostel, youth hostel, student lodging]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "hostel": boardinghouse, dorm, dormitory, doss house, fleabag, flophouse, guest house, hospice, hostelry, hotel, inn, lodge, lodging house, ordinary, pension, posada, pub, public, public house, roadhouse, rooming house, tavern