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hostel
[hos-tl]
noun
Also called youth hostel.an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
(formerly) a residence for the exclusive use of boarding Indigenous students, separate from but close to any of a series of day schools in northern Canada that were operated or funded by the federal government and were themselves open to students of any ethnicity.
British.a student residence at a university or boarding school.
an inn.
verb (used without object)
to travel, lodging each night at a hostel.
hostel
/ ˈɒə /
noun
a building providing overnight accommodation, as for the homeless, etc
See youth hostel
a supervised lodging house for nurses, workers, etc
archaicanother word for hostelry
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hostel1
Example Sentences
Meanwhile, officials at the BJ Medical College have started to vacate several wards of the hostel, near which the plane struck.
It was a balmy Thursday afternoon at the residential hostel of the BJ Medical College and the canteen was teeming with students getting lunch.
BJ Medical College Civil Hospital, one of Ahmedabad's most respected institutions, became ground zero when the aircraft crashed into its hostel on Thursday.
Gujarat's Additional Chief Secretary for Health confirmed the aircraft struck the students' hostel and staff quarters of Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College and Civil Hospital.
The plane came down on a doctors' hostel near the Civil Hospital, a short distance from the airport.
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