Hostel vs. Inn — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hostel and Inn
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Definitions
Hostel➦
A hostel is a form of low-cost, short-term shared sociable lodging where guests can rent a bed, usually a bunk bed in a dormitory, with shared use of a lounge and sometimes a kitchen. Rooms can be mixed or single-sex and have private or shared bathrooms.
Inn➦
Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway; before the advent of motorized transportation they also provided accommodation for horses.
Hostel➦
A supervised, inexpensive lodging place for travelers, especially young travelers.
Inn➦
A public lodging house serving food and drink to travelers; a hotel.
Hostel➦
An inn; a hotel.
Inn➦
A tavern or restaurant.
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Hostel➦
To stay at hostels while traveling.
Inn➦
Chiefly British Formerly, a residence hall for students, especially law students, in London.
Hostel➦
A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel
A rundown hostel
Inn➦
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
Hostel➦
(not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food
Inn➦
A tavern.
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Hostel➦
(obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
Inn➦
One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
The Inns of Court
The Inns of Chancery
Serjeants’ Inns
Hostel➦
(intransitive) To stay in a hostel during one's travels.
Inn➦
The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
Leicester Inn
Hostel➦
(transitive) To lodge (a person) in a hostel.
Inn➦
(obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
Hostel➦
An inn.
So pass I hostel, hall, and grange.
Inn➦
To house; to lodge.
Hostel➦
A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
Inn➦
To take lodging; to lodge.
Hostel➦
A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
Inn➦
A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
Therefore with me ye may take up your innFor this same night.
Hostel➦
Inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)
Inn➦
A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.
The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn.
Inn➦
The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn.
Inn➦
One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns.
Inn➦
To take lodging; to lodge.
Inn➦
To house; to lodge.
When he had brought them into his cityAnd inned them, everich at his degree.
Inn➦
A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
