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Hostel

Hostel

1. An inn. So pass i hostel, hall, and grange. (Tennyson)

2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

Origin: oe. Hostel, ostel, OF. Hostel, ostel, LL. Hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. Hospitalis. See hospital, and cf. Hotel.


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