hostel

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑstəl/

  • Audio (US):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒstəl/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ɒsʈal/, /(h)ɒsˈʈel/
• Homophone: hostile (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -ɒstəl

Noun

hostel (plural hostels)

1. A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

   A rundown hostel

2. (not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
3. (obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     There are also in Oxford certeine hostels or hals, which may rightwell be called by the names of colleges , if it were not that there is more libertie in them , than is to be seen in the other

4. (South Africa, South Asia) A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.

Verb

hostel (third-person singular simple present hostels, present participle hosteling or hostelling, simple past and past participle hosteled or hostelled)

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

Anagrams

• shotel, Tholes, Esholt, s—thole, Holste, hôtels, helots, tholes, Lhotse, hotels, loseth, Holtes, s--thole, s**thole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦostl̩]
• IPA^(key): [ˈɦostɛl]

Noun

hostel m inan

1. hostel

Etymology

From English hostel.

Noun

hostel n (singular definite hostellet, plural indefinite hostels)

1. hostel

Etymology

Internationalism.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhostəl/ [ˈhos.t̪əl]
• Rhymes: -ostəl
• Syllabification: hos‧tel

Noun

hostel (plural hostel-hostel)

1. hostel

Further reading

• “hostel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French hostel, ostel, from Latin hospitāle. Doublet of hospital.

Etymology 2

Etymology

From Old French ostel.

Noun

hostel m (plural hostels)

1. shelter; living quarters; place to stay
2. hotel; hostel; inn (establishment offering rooms for hire)

Noun

hostel oblique singular, m (oblique plural hosteaus or hosteax or hostiaus or hostiax or hostels, nominative singular hosteaus or hosteax or hostiaus or hostiax or hostels, nominative plural hostel)

1. Alternative form of ostel

Etymology

Borrowed from English hostel. Doublet of hotel and szpital.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔs.tɛl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔstɛl
• Syllabification: hos‧tel

Noun

hostel m inan (diminutive hostelik)

1. hostel (a commercial overnight lodging place)
2. hostel (a temporary refuge)

   Synonym: schronisko

Further reading

• hostel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hostel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hostel.

Pronunciation

Noun

hostel m (plural hostels)

1. hostel

   Synonym: albergue

Etymology

Borrowed from English hostel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /osˈtel/ [osˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: hos‧tel

Noun

hostel m (plural hosteles)

1. hostel