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English Dictionary: Inn by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inn
n
  1. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Inn \Inn\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Inned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Inning}.]
      To take lodging; to lodge. [R.] --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Inn \Inn\, n. [AS. in, inn, house, chamber, inn, from AS. in in;
      akin to Icel. inni house. See {In}.]
      1. A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation;
            residence; abode. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
                     Therefore with me ye may take up your inn For this
                     same night.                                       --Spenser.
  
      2. A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or
            wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.
  
      Note: As distinguished from a private boarding house, an inn
               is a house for the entertainment of all travelers of
               good conduct and means of payment,as guests for a brief
               period,not as lodgers or boarders by contract.
  
                        The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a
                        provincial inn.                              --W. Irving.
  
      3. The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person;
            as, Leicester Inn. [Eng.]
  
      4. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London,
            for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court;
            the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns.
  
      {Inns of chancery} (Eng.), colleges in which young students
            formerly began their law studies, now occupied chiefly by
            attorneys, solicitors, etc.
  
      {Inns of court} (Eng.), the four societies of [bd]students
            and practicers of the law of England[b8] which in London
            exercise the exclusive right of admitting persons to
            practice at the bar; also, the buildings in which the law
            students and barristers have their chambers. They are the
            Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's
            Inn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Inn \Inn\, v. t.
      1. To house; to lodge. [Obs.]
  
                     When he had brought them into his city And inned
                     them, everich at his degree.               --Chaucer.
  
      2. To get in; to in. See {In}, v. t.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Inn
      in the modern sense, unknown in the East. The khans or
      caravanserais, which correspond to the European inn, are not
      alluded to in the Old Testament. The "inn" mentioned in Ex. 4:24
      was just the halting-place of the caravan. In later times khans
      were erected for the accommodation of travellers. In Luke 2:7
      the word there so rendered denotes a place for loosing the
      beasts of their burdens. It is rendered "guest-chamber" in Mark
      14:14 and Luke 22:11. In Luke 10:34 the word so rendered is
      different. That inn had an "inn-keeper," who attended to the
      wants of travellers.
     
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