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单词 hostel
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hostel

(hɒstəl)
Word forms: plural hostels
1. countable noun
A hostel is a large house where people can stay cheaply for a short period of time. Hostels are usually owned by local government authorities or charities.
[mainly British]
Synonyms: cheap hotel, YMCA, YWCA, youth hostel More Synonyms of hostel
2.  See also youth hostel

hostel in British English

(ˈhɒstəl)
noun
1. 
a building providing overnight accommodation, as for homeless people, etc
2.  youth hostel
3.  British
a supervised lodging house for nurses, workers, etc
4.  archaic another word for hostelry
Word origin
C13: from Old French, from Medieval Latin hospitāle hospice; see hospital

hostel in American English

(ˈhɑstəl)
noun
1. 
an inn; hostelry; specif., youth hostel
verb intransitive
2. 
to stop at hostels when traveling
Word origin
ME < OFr < LL hospitale: see UNRESOLVED CROSS REF

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Examples of 'hostel' in a sentence
hostel

Accommodation, ranging from hostels to comfortable hotels, is extra.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
He has offered to volunteer for local charities but as soon as he gives his address as a homeless hostel'they don't want anything to do with you.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She moved to a hostel for homeless people and has just been given her own council flat.
The Sun (2014)
He should go to a bail hostel.
The Sun (2011)
Youth hostels are perfectly placed in many of the best walking areas.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Volunteer to work in a hostel for the homeless for the day and get over yourself.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
There was a hostel opposite my house and there was a bit of suffering in there.
The Sun (2008)
Where possible he had to stay in local youth hostels.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Homeless people lose mobiles or have them stolen in hostels.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He absconded from a bail hostel and committed further offences.
Coyle, Andrew & Stern, Vivien The Prisons We Deserve (1994)
She was the night manager at a local homeless hostel.
Alexander Masters STUART: A Life Backwards (2005)
This time they sorted her a place in a hostel and she began her studies at sixth form college.
The Sun (2010)
Hundreds of bail hostels are being opened in residential neighbourhoods without public consultation as part of moves to ease jail overcrowding.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They must now stay overnight in hotels or hostels - and can visit families only in pairs.
The Sun (2013)
But in the youth hostel, the welcome was very different.
Magnouloux, Bernard Travels with Rosinante (1990)
Little wonder it's the sort of book that you find at hostels favoured by backpackers.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The hostels offer cheap accommodation with bars, facilities and social areas.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
There are very few youth hostels, and hotels are usually very expensive.
Magnouloux, Bernard Travels with Rosinante (1990)
Buoyed by optimism, people opened youth hostels and cafés.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In many respects, hostel accommodation provides flexibility of the kind which is favoured by immigrant workers.
Ogden, Philip E & White, Paul E (eds.) Migrants in Modern France: Population Mobility in the Later Nineteenth and TwentiethCenturies (1989)
He was put up in a youth hostel for about six months, thousands of miles away from his family.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It takes me to South-East Asia on long bus journeys and to backpacker hostels.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
For years I had lived next door to a hostel for homeless people in London.
The Sun (2011)

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hostel

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In other languages
hostel

British English: hostel /ˈhɒstl/ NOUN
A hostel is a large house where people can stay cheaply for a short time.
  • American English: hostel
  • Arabic: بَيتُ الشَّبَابُ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: albergue
  • Chinese: 客栈
  • Croatian: hostel
  • Czech: ubytovna
  • Danish: herberg
  • Dutch: jeugdherberg
  • European Spanish: albergue juvenil
  • Finnish: hostelli
  • French: auberge
  • German: Heim
  • Greek: ξενώνας νέων
  • Italian: ostello
  • Japanese: ホステル
  • Korean: 호스텔
  • Norwegian: herberge
  • Polish: schronisko
  • European Portuguese: albergue
  • Romanian: cămin
  • Russian: общежитие
  • Latin American Spanish: hostal
  • Swedish: vandrarhem
  • Thai: หอพักนักเรียน
  • Turkish: öğrenci yurdu
  • Ukrainian: гуртожиток
  • Vietnamese: nhà trọ

Chinese translation of 'hostel'

hostel

(ˈhɔstl) (esp Brit)

n (c)

  1. (for homeless etc) 招待所 (zhāodàisuǒ) (个(個), gè)
(noun) 
Definition
a building providing overnight accommodation at a low cost for particular groups of people, such as the homeless
She spent two years living in a hostel, with no possessions.
Synonyms
cheap hotel
YMCA
YWCA
youth hostel
dormitory

Nearby words of
hostel

  • hospitality
  • host
  • hostage
  • hostel
  • hostess
  • hostile
  • hostility

Synonyms of 'hostel'

hostel

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