youth hostel

noun

Definition of youth hostelnext
as in tourist court

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Recent Examples of youth hostel Home to a youth hostel and folk museum, Glencoe is mostly a destination for outdoorspeople looking to kayak, mountain climb, go trekking, or pitch tents. — Timothy Latterner, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Feb. 2026 The government has arranged accommodation in hotels and youth hostels for the next few weeks, but finding more permanent accommodation for them in a city notorious for its tight housing market will be a challenge. — Shawna Kwan, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025 San Francisco supervisors Tuesday agreed to open a new homeless shelter for 250 people in a vacant youth hostel building just north of the Tenderloin. — J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022 Nordic Skiing with Aventure Rose-des-Vents Aventure Rose-des-Vents is a friendly, unpretentious youth hostel in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. — Outside, 3 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for youth hostel
Recent Examples of Synonyms for youth hostel
  1. tourist court
  2. motor inn
  3. motel
  4. spa
  5. motor lodge
  6. resort
  7. accommodations
  8. lodgings
Noun
  • Other than a rebranding from Goodnight Court to Classic Inn, little has changed over the past eight decades at the tourist court.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
  • No longer a tourist court, the building was reconfigured into a private home.
    — Ray Hanley, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
Definition of tourist court
Noun
  • Penny Lane The Lark Hotel Group has taken over a former motor inn that had seen better days.
    — Nancy Kane, Curbed, 25 June 2026
  • Michigan Lake Shore Resort, Saugatuck Lake Shore's retro vibe is the real deal—Joseph and Anna Milauckas built the place as a motor inn in 1952.
    — Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
Definition of motor inn
Noun
  • Authorities are investigating a fire outside a Wilmington motel Friday night that may have been ignited by fireworks.
    — Jasmine Mendez Follow, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • Officials said the three victims became trapped inside one of the motel rooms as the fire spread.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
Definition of motel
Noun
  • The spa, curiously or not, is next door to a primate-research center.
    — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • After 5 free live music in the spring, and a Sunday mariachi brunch at Mal Pan can flow straight into a spa afternoon and a martini tower at DTR SouthPark — no car needed.
    — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026
Definition of spa
Noun
  • Campfire Hotel & Pool Club The Campfire Hotel & Pool Club and motor lodge channels Bend’s outdoorsy spirit with a playful, retro edge.
    — Sierra Vandervort, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2026
  • Paul drove into Wilkes-Barre from Princeton on Christmas Day after the chapel service and dropped his bags at a forlorn motor lodge on Public Square—Christmas carols dragging at slow speed on its sound system—and swung by my parents.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
Definition of motor lodge
Noun
  • Three outdoor swimming pools and complimentary daily yoga classes give the property a resort feel.
    — Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • As we were carted to our bungalow late on a Friday night, my husband joked that the main gate’s grand entrance had a Jurassic Park feel, to which our bellhop countered that it had also been compared to a White Lotus resort.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
Definition of resort
Noun
  • The fare includes accommodations, many meals on board, drinks like regular coffee and lemonade, entertainment and more.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • The hotel falsely advertised accommodations with two queen beds and then gave you a room with smaller beds and alarming, unsanitary conditions, including suspicious red splatters.
    — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 6 July 2026
Definition of accommodations
Noun
  • From the military to the mountains Like many other words in the English language, Hurd says, the word comes from the French word camp, which means temporary military lodgings.
    — Natalie Escobar, NPR, 25 June 2026
  • The plan is for the team to make a four-hour bus ride to Inglewood to play, and then return to lodgings in Mexico.
    — Pat Maio, Daily News, 7 June 2026
Definition of lodgings

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