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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Cost of gas and maybe hotels for longer road trips vs cost of plane tickets?—
Keith Laing,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026 -
Old Town is walkable and full of affordable New Mexican food, and the city’s hotels and motels offer some of the best value of any destination in the Southwest.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
23 Mar. 2026
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Immigrant families brought Old World recipes and a fierce commitment to hospitality to Iowa’s capital, opening humble groceries, taverns and corner cafés that gradually evolved into full‑service dining rooms.—
Susan Stapleton,
Des Moines Register,
6 Mar. 2026
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There are 50,000 video gambling terminals, in most of the taverns and convenience stores in the state.—
Jim Nowlan,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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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
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The spacious lecture halls and hostels of the Friendship University were significantly superior to its overcrowded counterparts in western Europe at the time, but discipline was strict and students were strongly discouraged from traveling even around Moscow.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Hostelries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hostelries. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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