inn

名词 n. 动词 v.
发音 ĭn

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
    — [H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.
  2. A tavern.
  3. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
    — the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns
  4. The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person. UK,dated
    — Leicester Inn
  5. A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode. obsolete
    — But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.
动词 v.
  1. To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself. intransitive,obsolete
    — But where do you intend to inn to-night?
  2. To lodge or house (someone or something). obsolete,transitive
    — I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone.

词形变化

inns plural inns present,singular,third-person inning participle,present inned participle,past inned past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).
词源 2
From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).
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