hostel
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈhɑːstəl/
:
albergue
- During our trip, we met several other tourists at the hostel where we shared a room.
- hostel residents
- housed in hostels
- workers' hostels
I was put into a hostel at Weymouth.
- I was put into a hostel at Weymouth.
- If you go back to when I said about me complaining about the hostel, right?
- Crazy that I am still going to go back to a hostel and party tonight.
- But then on the five day show, Terry, I was in a hostel.
- Do you think that the, the, so that actually put you in a hostel?
- So I did four years out of there, got released, came out straight into a Maple hostel once again on conditions, right.
- So I was, I was staying at a really rough hostel and it was just a very uncomfortable place.
- I'm like sitting in this hostel in Rome and day by day Apple just drops a bunch of press releases, products.
Examples
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Sometimes they stay at a youth hostel, a shelter, or a housing center.
Academic text (2008) -
Let's go back to the hostel.
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Look at the view outside our little hostel, it's cute.
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We survived the night in our hostel last night.
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The place we're staying is like a mix between a hostel and an apartment complex.
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We were staying at this hostel.
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I'm staying in another youth hostel with no phone and no address for mail!
Fiction book (2000) -
Let me stay in a hostel and do the bike tours and get to know people and so on.
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You meet so many awesome people in the youth hostels.
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Tonight she'll sleep better: she's booked ahead at the Youth Hostel here in Penzance.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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3.4
A place where you stay for a short time or a short stay there
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3.9
A simple building with beds for several people, often used by workers or guests
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3.0
A cheap place where young travelers stay and share rooms and kitchens
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4.6
A building where travelers can sleep and rest
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3.6
A house that rents rooms to people for short or long stays
A cheap place where students or young people stay on trips with a host
Temporary rooms you rent to stay in for a short time
Compounds
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word hostel comes from the Latin root hospes meaning 'guest', and it came into English through the old French word hostel meaning 'guest house'. So a hostel is a simple place where travelers or students stay for low cost and often share rooms, and you can see the same root in host, hotel, and hospital.