hostel

hostel

noun

Definition of HOSTEL

a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests <in the old days, a traveler could spend the night at one of the hostels placed along the coach route>

Synonyms auberge, caravansary (or caravanserai), hospice, hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, public house, tavern

Related Words B and B, bed-and-breakfast, guesthouse; apartment hotel; accommodations, lodgings, rest; court, motel, motor court, motor inn, motor lodge, resort, spa, tourist court, youth hostel; camp, campground; bunkhouse, dorm, dormitory; boardinghouse, lodging house, rooming house; doss-house [chiefly British], fleabag, flophouse