inn

Meaning

Noun

1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
2. A tavern.
3. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
4. (British, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
5. (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To lodge or house (someone or something).

Synonyms

hotel

🏨

hostel

tavern

lodge

motel

guesthouse

guest house

lodging

hostelry

pub

public house

road house

house

🏠

auberge

bar

choultry

hospice

hall

rest house

lodging place

Japanese hotel

ryokan

caravansarai

pot-house

small hotel

also an

private dwelling

public bar

innkeeping

posada

boarding house

building

bunkhouse

caravansary

caravanserai

flophouse

guest-house

halting-place

hostler

khan

lodging house

ordinary

ostler

restaurant

roadhouse

sojourn

public office

Translations

auberge

posada

🏨

osteria

locanda

herberg

Wirtshaus

Herberge

Gasthaus

πανδοχείο

Gasthof

han

χάνι

logement

pousada

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪn/

Etymology

Cognate with Icelandic: inni

Cognate with Faroese: inni

In summary

From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).

Sentences

He rushes back to the inn , but is too late to warn Primus .