hostel

Meanings

Plural: hostels

Noun

a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)
A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.

Verb

To stay in a hostel during one's travels.
To lodge (a person) in a hostel.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Obsolete from the 16th to 18th centuries, until it was revived by Walter Scott.

Synonyms

auberge, hostelry, inn, lodge, student lodging, youth hostel

Scrabble Score: 9

hostel is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
hostel is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hostel is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

hostel is a valid Words With Friends word