hostel

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
2. A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
3. (obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
4. (South-Africa, South-Asia) A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To stay in a hostel during one's travels.
2. (transitive) To lodge (a person) in a hostel.

Konzepte

Herberge

Jugendherberge

Hotel

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Wohnheim

Wirtshaus

Gasthaus

Gasthof

einfaches Hotel

Lagerhaus

Speicher

Wirtschaft

Heim

🏠

Raststätte

Synonyme

inn

dormitory

hotel

🏨

youth hostel

guest house

motel

hall of residence

boarding house

lodge

hostelry

guesthouse

dormitory

hall of residence

lodging

residence hall

boarding school

hospice

tavern

public house

student lodging

auberge

lodging house

posada

bunkhouse

dorm

flophouse

home

🏠

hostler

nursing home

ostler

refuge

rest home

sanatorium

shelter

storehouse

rest stop

rest house

battered women’s shelter

hospitium

innkeeping

Übersetzungen

albergue

ostello

posada

🏨

herberg

auberge

ξενώνας νεότητας

logement

albergue

ξενώνας

alberg

auberge de jeunesse

albergo

🏨

jeugdherberg

ξενοδοχείο

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈhɑstəl/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: hostel

In summary

From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Obsolete from the 16th to 18th centuries, until it was revived by Walter Scott.