youth hostel
Americannoun
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youth hostels
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of youth hostel
First recorded in 1935–40
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Some passengers shared small, quadruple-occupancy cabins with strangers, complete with bunk beds reminiscent of a cut-rate youth hostel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
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
For 60 years from 1945 the castle was a youth hostel, but during World War Two it had served as a sanctuary for members of the Norwegian royal family after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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
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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