as in hotel
a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests
we decided to stay at an inn rather than keep driving all night
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Recent Examples of inn
After Devon makes a big scene, Kiki offers her a $10,000 payoff to leave the island and never return, and sends her away in the care of her chief of staff, Jose (Felix Solis), who drives Devon to a local inn to spend the night ahead of the morning ferry.
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
When one California castle is not enough (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
Nowadays the Madonna Inn is a vast enterprise with restaurants, bakery, bar, stables next door and 110 guest rooms — each different, each with its own postcard in the inn’s three gift shops.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Or maybe a Nantucket inn decorated by Wes Anderson using a Bergdorf Goodman credit card.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
Located in the center of downtown Apalachicola near all the shops, restaurants, galleries, and life, the inn’s five suites and studio apartment are the perfect place to set up home base.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
When one California castle is not enough (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
Nowadays the Madonna Inn is a vast enterprise with restaurants, bakery, bar, stables next door and 110 guest rooms — each different, each with its own postcard in the inn’s three gift shops.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Or maybe a Nantucket inn decorated by Wes Anderson using a Bergdorf Goodman credit card.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
Located in the center of downtown Apalachicola near all the shops, restaurants, galleries, and life, the inn’s five suites and studio apartment are the perfect place to set up home base.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inn
Noun
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The hotel’s private beach, accessible only by elevator cut through solid rock, epitomizes the exclusive yet authentic Italian experience that has drawn discerning travellers for generations.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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Their season aired amid the COVID-19 pandemic and was filmed in a villa constructed on top of a Las Vegas hotel.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
3 June 2025
Noun
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Among those are William Morales, a bomb maker for a militant Puerto Rican group that bombed a New York tavern in 1975, killing four, and Joanne Chesimard, known in Cuba as Assata Shakur, convicted for killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
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Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.—
Garritt C. Van Dyk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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The sleeper service from Hamburg in northern Germany would, therefore, be a hostel on wheels.—
Carlton Reid,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Meanwhile, Fred remained behind bars and was later transferred to a bail hostel while awaiting trial.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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“Inn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inn. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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