Elderhostel
AmericanExample Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The nonprofit began 50 years ago as Elderhostel, offering travel and classes to those 60 and older who didn’t mind staying in unused college dorms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Once covid restrictions ease, you could explore the idea of taking your grandchildren on an Elderhostel retreat.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2022
On balance, Road Scholar — founded in 1975 as Elderhostel and mercifully re-branded in 2010 — provided a fascinating look at what has been dubbed the Rooftop of the World.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018
I explain the place to the worldly and cultured back home as something like but not really like the adult-learning structure of the Elderhostel experience, the Road Scholar program or the Lifelong Learning Institute.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2014
At the end of Whittier College's program, Louise O'Farrell, 63, a retired bookkeeper, and Margaret Berlier, 72, a former teacher, made plans to meet again in London at an August Elderhostel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
