as in hotels
a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests
the grande dame of the city's hostelries, it has played host to presidents, kings, and Hollywood royalty
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Noun
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In November 2025, the Maryland Department of Human Services stopped housing children in hotels.—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026 -
Ellen Pompeo takes a chillier approach, always looking for hotels with cold plunges.—
Meredith Lepore,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Apr. 2026
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Plenty of food and drink options will be available, and 16 pubs and taverns will cater to the 21-and-up crowd.—
Travis Pinson,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Narrow, cobblestone streets take you past historic buildings filled with trinket shops, cafes, and taverns that are ideal for a quick bite.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Apr. 2026
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Infrastructure projects such as toll roads and school hostels are generating very high returns owing to high traffic volumes and massive student population in the country.—
Emele Onu,
Bloomberg,
7 Apr. 2026
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The community of backpackers moving through the Chinese hostels had the values of a slutty, hippie utopia.—
Cassandra Neyenesch,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Hostelries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hostelries. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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