hostel
Anlam (English)
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- A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
- A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
- (obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
- A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.
Synonyms
student lodging
lodging house
rest house
battered women’s shelter
hospitium
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Etimoloji (English)
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.
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