as in hotel
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
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Recent Examples of hostel
The community of backpackers moving through the Chinese hostels had the values of a slutty, hippie utopia.
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Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
When choosing where to stay, hostels and guesthouses with communal spaces are ideal for solo travelers who want a mix of independence and social connection.
—Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026
Several times during the high season, which runs from June to early September, Air Greenland created makeshift hostels inside airports to compensate for a lack of proper accommodations.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026
Other on-site dining options include Macondo, which sits in a gathering space that feels akin to an elevated hostel lounge, which features live music over Middle Eastern cuisine.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2026
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Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
When choosing where to stay, hostels and guesthouses with communal spaces are ideal for solo travelers who want a mix of independence and social connection.
—Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026
Several times during the high season, which runs from June to early September, Air Greenland created makeshift hostels inside airports to compensate for a lack of proper accommodations.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026
Other on-site dining options include Macondo, which sits in a gathering space that feels akin to an elevated hostel lounge, which features live music over Middle Eastern cuisine.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hostel
Noun
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Skytrax awarded Grand Hyatt Hotel at SFO the title of best airport hotel in North America.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Apr. 2026
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Built in the 1990s and opened to the public in 2002, Landoll’s was originally envisioned to be a barn; Marta Landoll eventually convinced her husband, Jim, to expand their dreams and turn the property into a hotel.—
Jacqueline Kehoe,
Midwest Living,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Others say that the two bits contributed were to help Poinsett himself keep the lights on (so to speak, of course, this would've been a couple hundred years pre-electricity) in his own tavern.—
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott,
Southern Living,
17 Apr. 2026
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As the vessel toured Baja California, Diana Sanders of Vacaville sampled tequila shots — 14 or 15 in total — from six ship taverns, tequileras and pubs, according to court documents.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Hostel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hostel. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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