youth hostel
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3.0
- noun
- /juːθ ˈhɒstəl/
:
albergue juvenil
- After a year in Spain, I moved to Italy and worked in an international youth hostel in Rome.
- stay at a youth hostel
- youth hostels, public campgrounds
Examples
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Travelers looking for a cheaper option can preferably opt to stay at any of the youth hostels in New York City.
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This "Job Journey" is being offered to young people in Soderhamn, who can receive a ticket to Oslo and a month's rent at a youth hostel (for 20 a night).
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This is our second night at the youth hostel.
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I asked him, "where is the youth hostel?"
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You meet so many awesome people in the youth hostels.
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Crash at a youth hostel or something.
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The rooms of the youth hostels in New York City are small and are equipped with standard facilities like a bed and a TV.
Blog text (30) -
I made it to le Cinque Terre, walked to the only youth hostel there, asked for a bed, and they told me they were booked out that day.
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I said that they (my presumed cousins, the pigs) probably wouldn't even have the generosity to offer me a bed, and I knew that in Lyon I could at least crash in a youth hostel.
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During our trip, we found that the best place to meet other travelers was at the youth hostel.
Synonyms
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2.1
A cheap place for travelers or students to sleep, often with shared rooms and facilities
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
A building that offers rooms for people to stay for a short time
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'youth hostel' is transparently compositional: it denotes a 'hostel' (budget accommodation) intended for 'youth' (young people). This noun–noun modification pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., Jugendherberge, auberge de jeunesse), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name youth hostel combines youth, meaning 'young people', and hostel, meaning 'a simple place to stay'. One popular story says these places began as cheap houses where young travelers slept in shared rooms and were looked after, so the name now means a supervised, inexpensive place with shared facilities for young people.