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Webster 1913 Edition

Hostel

Hos′tel

,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hostel

HOSTEL

, HOSTELLER. [See Hotel.]

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