hostel

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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.

Έννοιες

ξενώνας νεότητας

ξενώνας

ξενοδοχείο

πανδοχείο

ξενώνας άστεγων

χάνι

άσυλο

πανσιό

Συνώνυμα

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

Μεταφράσεις

albergue

herberg

ostello

posada

🏨

Herberge

auberge

logement

albergue

alberg

Jugendherberge

auberge de jeunesse

albergo

🏨

Hotel

🏨

locanda

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈhɑstəl/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

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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.