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
Everyone else in the hostel room stayed asleep or woke up but didn't bother leaving.
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Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Mangione handed arriving officers a fake New Jersey ID that was used at the New York City hostel days earlier and was subsequently arrested.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
Huang said his hostel primarily served international visitors prior to Covid, and the share of foreign guests has recovered modestly to about one-fifth of customers.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 7 May 2025
Those spaces will likely include women-only bathrooms, changing rooms, hospital wards, hostels, prisons, sports clubs, domestic violence women’s shelters and more.
—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
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Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Mangione handed arriving officers a fake New Jersey ID that was used at the New York City hostel days earlier and was subsequently arrested.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
Huang said his hostel primarily served international visitors prior to Covid, and the share of foreign guests has recovered modestly to about one-fifth of customers.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 7 May 2025
Those spaces will likely include women-only bathrooms, changing rooms, hospital wards, hostels, prisons, sports clubs, domestic violence women’s shelters and more.
—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hostel
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In the early morning hours, law enforcement received a tip that Tolbert might be inside a hotel at 204 N. Washington St. in Ellis, Kansas, the KBI said in a statement.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
3 June 2025
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The owner of a local hotel allows your rival to speak there?—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2025
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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 14 Jun. 2025.
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