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youth hostel

American  

noun

  1. hostel.

youth hostel British  

noun

  1. Often shortened to: hostel.  one of a chain of inexpensive lodging places for young people travelling cheaply

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of youth hostel

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

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Marshall’s plans to demolish a former youth hostel built during the Art Deco period to make way for a sports field was blocked by the Historic Preservation Board, which mandated he preserve the building’s facade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The island's youth hostel wrote: "We were fully booked before the ferries were cancelled and they keep just sending people without even calling us."

From BBC • May 14, 2023

In 1964, representatives of Melbourne’s New Theater came to the Aboriginal youth hostel where he was living to cast an all-Indigenous production of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.”

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2022

When a youth hostel came up in my search on Booking.com, I dismissed it.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022

Back at the youth hostel, she wrote a sincere letter of thanks to Patti Sokoloff on an old-fashioned piece of airmail paper and posted it.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

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