hostel

English

Etymology

From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Obsolete from the 16th to 18th centuries, until it was revived by Walter Scott.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑstəl/

• Audio (US):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒstəl/
• Homophone: hostile (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -ɒstəl

Noun

hostel (plural hostels)

1. A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

   A rundown hostel

2. (not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
3. (obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     There are also in Oxford certeine hostels or hals, which may rightwell be called by the names of colleges , if it were not that there is more libertie in them , than is to be seen in the other

4. (South Asia) A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lodging place

Derived terms

• bail hostel
• hosteler, hosteller
• hostelry
• probation hostel
• youth hostel

Related terms

• host
• hostler
• hotel

Descendants

• → Hindi: हॉस्टल (hŏsṭal)
• → Japanese: ホステル (hosuteru)
• → Korean: 호스텔 (hoseutel)
• → Oromo: hosteela

Translations

an affordable overnight lodging place

• Arabic: نُزُل m (nuzul), أُوتِيل m (ʔōtēl)
• Armenian: հանրակացարան (hy) (hanrakacʻaran), հոսթել (hy) (hostʻel), իջեւանատուն (hy) (iǰewanatun)
• Bulgarian: хосте́л m (hostél)
• Catalan: alberg (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 招待所 (zh) (zhāodàisuǒ), 宿舍 (zh) (sùshè), 旅舍 (zh) (lǚshè), 旅社 (zh) (lǚshè), 背包客棧／背包客栈 (bēibāo kèzhàn) (Taiwan)

• Czech: hostel (cs) m
• Danish: vandrerhjem n, hostel n
• Dutch: herberg (nl) m, pension (nl) n
• Esperanto: gastejo
• Finnish: hostelli (fi), retkeilymaja, matkustajakoti (fi)
• French: auberge (fr) f, pension (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰოსტელი (hosṭeli), საერთო საცხოვრებელი (saerto sacxovrebeli)
• German: Herberge (de) f, Wohnheim (de) n, Heim (de) n

  Alemannic German: Herbrig f

• Greek: ξενώνας (el) m (xenónas)
• Hebrew: אַכְסָנִיָּה (he) f (achsanía)
• Hungarian: vendégház (hu), szálló (hu), fogadó (hu)
• Indonesian: losmen (id)
• Italian: ostello (it) m
• Japanese: ホステル (ja) (hosuteru), 寮 (ja) (りょう, ryō), 宿舎 (ja) (しゅくしゃ, shukusha)
• Khmer: ផ្ទះសំណាក់ (phtĕəh sɑmnak)
• Korean: 호스텔 (hoseutel), 기숙사(寄宿舍) (ko) (gisuksa)
• Maori: wharepuni
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: please add this translation if you can

• Polish: hostel (pl) m
• Portuguese: albergue (pt) m, estalagem (pt) f
• Romanian: hostel n
• Russian: общежи́тие (ru) n (obščežítije), турба́за (ru) f (turbáza), хо́стел (ru) m (xóstɛl), хосте́л (ru) m (xostɛ́l), мини-оте́ль (ru) m (mini-otɛ́lʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: ostail f
• Slovak: hostel m
• Spanish: albergue (es) m, parador (es) m, hostal (es) m
• Swahili: hosteli (sw)
• Swedish: vandrarhem (sv) n, pensionat (sv) n, ungkarlshotell (sv) n, härbärge (sv) n
• Thai: หอพัก (hɔ̌ɔ-pák)
• Turkish: hostel
• Ukrainian: гурто́житок m (hurtóžytok), го́стел m (hóstel), госте́л m (hostél)
• Vietnamese: nhà nghỉ
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can

short for youth hostel — see youth hostel

a temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food

• Armenian: օթեւան (hy) (ōtʻewan)
• Belarusian: прыту́лак m (prytúlak), начле́жка f (načljéžka), прыю́т m (pryjút)
• Bulgarian: прию́т (bg) m (prijút)
• Dutch: hospies n
• Greek: άσυλο (el) n (ásylo)
• Portuguese: albergue (pt) m, abrigo (pt) m
• Russian: прию́т (ru) m (prijút), ночле́жка (ru) f (nočléžka), ночле́жный дом m (nočléžnyj dom)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прѐноћӣште n

  Roman: prènoćīšte n

• Swedish: härbärge (sv) n
• Ukrainian: приту́лок (uk) m (prytúlok), нічлі́жка (uk) f (ničlížka), прию́т (uk) m (pryjút)

place of accommodation for students

• Hindi: छात्रावास (hi) (chātrāvās), हॉस्टल (hŏsṭal)

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Translations to be checked

• Maori: ^{(please verify)} whare noho

See also

• hospice

Verb

hostel (third-person singular simple present hostels, present participle hosteling or hostelling, simple past and past participle hosteled or hostelled)

1. (intransitive) To stay in a hostel during one's travels.
2. (transitive) To lodge (a person) in a hostel.

Anagrams

• shotel, Tholes, Esholt, s—thole, Holste, hôtels, helots, tholes, Lhotse, hotels, loseth, Holtes, s--thole, s**thole

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦostl̩]
• IPA^(key): [ˈɦostɛl]

Noun

hostel m inan

1. hostel

Declension

Declension of hostel (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	hostel	hostely
genitive	hostelu	hostelů
dative	hostelu	hostelům
accusative	hostel	hostely
vocative	hostele	hostely
locative	hostelu	hostelech
instrumental	hostelem	hostely

Related terms

• host m

 

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French hostel, ostel, from Latin hospitāle. Doublet of hospital.

Alternative forms

• hostele, hostell, hostelle, hostil, ostel, ostell, osteyl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔsˈtɛːl/, /ɔsˈtɛl/, /ˈɔstɛl/

Noun

hostel (plural hosteles)

1. A hostel or guesthouse; accommodation.
2. Fun or diversion; entertaining activities.
3. A dwelling or house; a place of residence.
4. A household; a domestic establishment.
5. The owner or manager of a hostel.

Related terms

• hostelen
• hostelerie
• hostiler

Descendants

• English: hostel
• Scots: hostel
• → Middle Cornish: ostel
  • Cornish: ostel

References

• “hostē̆l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.

Etymology 2

Verb

hostel

1. Alternative form of hostelen

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French ostel.

Noun

hostel m (plural hostels)

1. shelter; living quarters; place to stay
2. hotel; hostel; inn (establishment offering rooms for hire)

Derived terms

• maistre d'hostel

Descendants

• French: hôtel (see there for further descendants)

Old French

Noun

hostel oblique singular, m (oblique plural hosteaus or hosteax or hostiaus or hostiax or hostels, nominative singular hosteaus or hosteax or hostiaus or hostiax or hostels, nominative plural hostel)

1. Alternative form of ostel

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hostel. Doublet of hotel and szpital.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔs.tɛl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔstɛl
• Syllabification: hos‧tel

Noun

hostel m inan (diminutive hostelik)

1. hostel (a commercial overnight lodging place)
2. hostel (a temporary refuge)

   Synonym: schronisko

Declension

Declension of hostel

	singular	plural
nominative	hostel	hostele
genitive	hostelu	hosteli
dative	hostelowi	hostelom
accusative	hostel	hostele
instrumental	hostelem	hostelami
locative	hostelu	hostelach
vocative	hostelu	hostele

Derived terms

adjective

• hostelowy

 

Further reading

• hostel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hostel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hostel.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔs.tew/ [ˈhɔs.teʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔs.tew/ [ˈhɔs.teʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔʃ.tew/ [ˈχɔʃ.teʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɔʃ.tɛl/ [ˈɔʃ.tɛɫ], /ɔʃˈtɛl/ [ɔʃˈtɛɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɔʃ.tɛl/ [ˈɔʃ.tɛɫ], /ɔʃˈtɛl/ [ɔʃˈtɛɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɔʃ.tɛl/ [ˈɔʃ.tɛɫ], /ɔʃˈtɛ.li/

Noun

hostel m (plural hostels)

1. hostel

   Synonym: albergue

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hostel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /osˈtel/ [osˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: hos‧tel

Noun

hostel m (plural hosteles)

1. hostel