as in hotel
a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests
in the old days, a traveler could spend the night at one of the hostels placed along the coach route
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Recent Examples of hostel
Those spaces will likely include women-only bathrooms, changing rooms, hospital wards, hostels, prisons, sports clubs, domestic violence women’s shelters and more.
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Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
Where Does The Policing Of Women’s Bodies End? Lastly, outside the context of public boards, this ruling has a cascade effect on hospitals, hostels, public changing rooms and more.
—Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Kevin’s Hostel This no-frills hostel is both affordable and clean with a great garden and terrace reserved exclusively for guests.
—Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
How authorities say the shooting happened Authorities say Mangione arrived in New York City by bus days before the Dec. 4 shooting and checked into a hostel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
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Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
Where Does The Policing Of Women’s Bodies End? Lastly, outside the context of public boards, this ruling has a cascade effect on hospitals, hostels, public changing rooms and more.
—Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Kevin’s Hostel This no-frills hostel is both affordable and clean with a great garden and terrace reserved exclusively for guests.
—Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
How authorities say the shooting happened Authorities say Mangione arrived in New York City by bus days before the Dec. 4 shooting and checked into a hostel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hostel
Noun
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Then, in September, he was arrested by federal authorities at a Manhattan hotel.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Meantime, Killian and I are holed-up at a Baymont hotel in Blackwell.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
Noun
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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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The Plastered Owl - Named for a comical celestial owl, this whimsical bar serves up the coldest beers from the tap of the ancient tree at the tavern's center.—
Samantha Neely,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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“Hostel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hostel. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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