different between lodging vs hostel

English

Etymology

lodge +? -ing

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?d???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?d???/
• Rhymes: -?d???

Noun

lodging (plural lodgings)

1. A place to live or lodge.
2. Sleeping accommodation.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways

     When I was a Cloister-monk, I was once sent to Durham on business of our Church; and coming home again, the dark night caught me at Risby, and I had to beg a lodging there.

3. (in the plural) Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
5. (agriculture) The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.

Related terms

• lodge

Translations

Verb

lodging

1. present participle of lodge

Further reading

• lodging on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lodging (agriculture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Golding, dogling, godling, golding

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): /?h?st?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?st?l/
• Homophone: hostile (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -?st?l

Noun

hostel (plural hostels)

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lodging place

Derived terms

• hosteler, hosteller
• hostelry
• youth hostel

Related terms

• host
• hostler
• hotel

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (hosuteru)
• ? Korean: ??? (hoseutel)

Translations

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. to stay in a hostel as part of a travel

Anagrams

• Holtes, Lhotse, Tholes, helots, hotels, hôtels, loseth, shotel, tholes

Czech

Noun

hostel m

1. hostel

Declension

Related terms

• host m

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French hostel, ostel, from Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le. Doublet of hospital.

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(h)?s?t??l/, /(h)?s?t?i?l/, /?(h)?st?l/

Noun

hostel (plural hosteles)

1. A hostel or guesthouse; accomodation.
2. Fun or diversion; entertaining activities.
3. A dwelling, dormitory or home; housing, lodging.
4. A house or place of residence; the household.
5. A owner or manager of a hostel.

Related terms

• hostellen
• hostelrye
• hostiler

Descendants

• English: hostel
• Scots: hostel

References

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

Etymology 2

From Old French osteler, hosteler.

Verb

hostel

1. Alternative form of hostellen

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 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

Noun

hostel m inan

1. hostel

Declension

Spanish

Noun

hostel m (plural hosteles)

1. hostel