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inn (in)

noun

  1. Obsolete any dwelling or lodging
    1. an establishment or building providing lodging and, usually, food and drink for travelers; hotel or motel, esp. one in the country or along a highway
    2. a restaurant or tavern: now usually only in the names of such places
  3. Historical, Brit. any of various houses in London providing lodging for students

Etymology: ME yn < OE inn (akin to ON inni) < adv. inn, inne, within: see in

transitive verb, intransitive verb

Archaic to lodge at an inn
Inn definition

Inn (in)

river flowing from E Switzerland across W Austria & SE Bavaria into the Danube: c. 320 mi (515 km)

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inn

n.

hotel, hostelry, bed-and-breakfast, tavern; see bar 2, hotel, lodge, motel, resort 2.


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inn Usage Examples

Possessives

  • drover: Part of the hotel was originally an old drovers ' inn, however the majority of the hotel was built during the Victorian era.

Converse of object

  • thatch: In the end an air raid in 942 solved one problem when the old thatched inn proved a vulnerable target.

Adjective modifier

  • 16th: The Kings Arms is a 16th century coaching inn where the main entrance was through the arch leading to the stables.

Modifies a noun

  • gatwick: Hotel facilities: the holiday inn gatwick airport also has 5 meeting rooms with facilities for up to 150 people.

Noun used with modifier

  • coaching: The Kings Arms is a 16th century coaching inn where the main entrance was through the arch leading to the stables.
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Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? Do you remember an Inn, And the tedding and the spreading Of the straw for a bedding, And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees And the wine that tasted of the tar?

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre

And so it was, that, whilethey were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

-Bible (NewTestament)

But a certain Samaritan, ashejourneyed, came wherehe was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave themtothehost, andsaiduntohim,Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

-Bible (NewTestament)

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