hostel
Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
(formerly) a residence for the exclusive use of boarding Indigenous students, separate from but close to any of a series of day schools in northern Canada that were operated or funded by the federal government and were themselves open to students of any ethnicity.: See also residential school (def. 2).
British. a student residence at a university or boarding school.
an inn.
to travel, lodging each night at a hostel.
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How to use hostel in a sentence
On many thru-hiking trails, there is often relatively easy and semi-frequent access to towns with outfitters or even hiker boxes of left-behind items at hostels and stations.
Ultralight backpacking hacks no one tells you about | Sandra Gutierrez | July 29, 2021 | Popular-ScienceFor scale, only 500 local residents still live in Dubrovnik’s old town, the rest of its warren of buildings are Airbnb lets or hostels.
Found in hostels, shops, post offices, laundromats, and other businesses along the trail, hiker boxes contain anything the last hikers to come through had too much of—from socks to stove fuel to sunscreen to food.
The children of Indigenous San people, also known as Bushmen, often live in remote communities, and the government provides schools with hostels for their children so they can get an education.
Ron Limb, 54, the hostel’s owner, was home in bed, awakened by a call from someone at the hostel.
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But, still, week after week, Addison lived in a Dili hostel waiting for the rusty wheels of Timorese justice to set her free.
Let’s Free Stacey Addison, The Oregon Woman Jailed at the Ends of the Earth | Christopher Dickey | October 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey drove through France before settling in Spain, where they rented rooms in a hostel in Malaga.
Desperate Parents Arrested After Fleeing Britain For Other Treatment Options for Son in Europe | Barbie Latza Nadeau | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis is a new kind of hostel for a new generation of traveller.
On the other hand, I suspect that hostel also forbade alcohol and cigarettes too, right?
Sanclemente went on the lam before being arrested in a Buenos Aires student hostel in May of that year.
The name "Students' hostel," written on a large poster placed at the gate, attracted my attention and I rang the doorbell.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianBefore leaving the hostel I was invited into a garden gay with roses and carnations and the merry voices of happy girls.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianThe programs are made up by professionals and students of the hostel who are studying music.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianIf you find neatness at an hostel, it is kept by old-country people.
Canada and the Canadians | Sir Richard Henry BonnycastleThen you saw a sleighing party in the country, and soon a hostel of goodly size.
British Dictionary definitions for hostel
/ (ˈhɒstəl) /
a building providing overnight accommodation, as for the homeless, etc
See youth hostel
British a supervised lodging house for nurses, workers, etc
archaic another word for hostelry
Origin of hostel
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