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
After 10 years as the only hostel in China’s Datong city, Fly by Knight suddenly gained six new competitors in one year, according to founder Daniel Huang.
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 7 May 2025
The sleeper service from Hamburg in northern Germany would, therefore, be a hostel on wheels.
—Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Meanwhile, Fred remained behind bars and was later transferred to a bail hostel while awaiting trial.
—Alex Gurley, People.com, 16 May 2025
The manhunt for his killer led police through Central Park to a hostel on the Upper West Side and eventually to a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
—Elijah Westbrook, Ali Bauman, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 7 May 2025
The sleeper service from Hamburg in northern Germany would, therefore, be a hostel on wheels.
—Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Meanwhile, Fred remained behind bars and was later transferred to a bail hostel while awaiting trial.
—Alex Gurley, People.com, 16 May 2025
The manhunt for his killer led police through Central Park to a hostel on the Upper West Side and eventually to a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
—Elijah Westbrook, Ali Bauman, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hostel
Noun
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Wellness programs aren't confined to luxury hotels.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025
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For safety concerns, the Mexican national team decided to change hotels earlier in the week and moved from downtown to Long Beach.—
Carlos Rodriguez,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2025
Noun
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Among those are William Morales, a bomb maker for a militant Puerto Rican group that bombed a New York tavern in 1975, killing four, and Joanne Chesimard, known in Cuba as Assata Shakur, convicted for killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
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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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“Hostel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hostel. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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