- 1
An overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
- a rundown hostel
- 2
A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
- 3
A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.obsolete
- There are also in Oxford certeine hostels or hals, which may rightwell be called by the names of colleges , if it were not that there is more libertie in them , than is to be seen in the other
- 4
A public hotel.obsolete
- Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Qu
- 5
A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.South-AfricaSouth-Asia
hostel
'hɒstәl8 senses · 950 ms
Level C1
- 1
To stay in a hostel during one's travels.intransitive
- 2
To lodge (a person) in a hostel.transitive