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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McKinney alleged that Weinstein raped her and a friend in a Manhattan hotel room in 2003.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
3 June 2025
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The hotel’s crowning jewel is its restaurant, Le Gabriel, which has the distinction of earning three Michelin stars.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Architectural Digest,
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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Only one passenger survived after the plane crashed onto a medical college hostel during lunch hour, with local media reporting as many as 24 people on the ground were also killed.—
Sudipto Ganguly,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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The plane hit a building hosting a medical college hostel and burst into flames, killing several students, in the city that is the capital of Gujarat, Modi’s home state.—
Shonal Ganguly,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
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“Inn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inn. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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