hostel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hostel	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hostel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hostel n a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge] inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) Synonym(s): hostel, youth hostel, student lodging
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hostel \Hos"tel\, n. [OE. hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel, LL. hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. hospitalis. See {Hospital}, and cf. {Hotel}.] 1. An inn. [Archaic] --Poe. So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. --Tennyson. 2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] --Holinshed.