hostel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhɒstəl/    美 /ˈhɑstəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
    — a rundown hostel
  2. A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
  3. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. obsolete
    — There are also in Oxford certeine hostels or hals, which may rightwell be called by the names of colleges , if it were not that there is more libertie in them , than is to be seen in the other
  4. A public hotel. obsolete
    — Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way.
  5. A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students. South-Africa,South-Asia
动词 v.
  1. To stay in a hostel during one's travels. intransitive
  2. To lodge (a person) in a hostel. transitive

词形变化

hostels plural hostels present,singular,third-person hosteling US,participle,present hostelling UK,participle,present hosteled US,participle,past hosteled US,past hostelled UK,participle,past hostelled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
bail hostel hosteler hosteller hostelite hostelry poshtel probation hostel youth hostel
相关词
host hostler hotel hospice

词源

词源 1
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. Not in use from late 17th c. (in the usual sense from mid 16th c.) to 1808, when it was revived by Walter Scott in his poem Marmion (see the quotation).
词源 2
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. Not in use from late 17th c. (in the usual sense from mid 16th c.) to 1808, when it was revived by Walter Scott in his poem Marmion (see the quotation).
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