Definition: hostel

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

hostel
     n 1: a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn: hostelry,
           inn, lodge]
     2: inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on
        bicycling trips) [syn: youth hostel, student lodging]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Hostel \Hos"tel\, n. [OE. hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel, LL.
   hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. hospitalis. See Hospital, and
   cf. Hotel.]
   1. An inn. [Archaic] --Poe.

            So pass I hostel, hall, and grange.   --Tennyson.

   2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.]
      --Holinshed.