different between refuge vs hostel

English

Etymology

From Old French refuge, from Latin refugium, from re- + fugi? (“flee”). Doublet of refugium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fju?d?/

Noun

refuge (countable and uncountable, plural refuges)

1. A state of safety, protection or shelter.
2. A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
3. Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
4. An expedient to secure protection or defence.
5. A refuge island.

Synonyms

• haven
• sanctuary
• zoar

Derived terms

• refugee
• refugium
• refugitive

Translations

Verb

refuge (third-person singular simple present refuges, present participle refuging, simple past and past participle refuged)

1. (intransitive) To return to a place of shelter.
   • 2011, Michael D. Gumert, Agustín Fuentes, Lisa Jones-Engel, Monkeys on the Edge

     Among these macaques, although activity cycles are quite variable from location to location, refuging is a common characteristic.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to protect.

Translations

Anagrams

• Fugere

French

Etymology

From Latin refugium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.fy?/

Noun

refuge m (plural refuges)

1. refuge

Further reading

• “refuge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

refuge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of refugi?

Old French

Alternative forms

• reffuge
• refiuge
• refuje

Etymology

From Latin refugium.

Noun

refuge m (oblique plural refuges, nominative singular refuges, nominative plural refuge)

1. a refuge
2. (figuratively) a protector or savior

Descendants

• ? English: refuge
• French: refuge

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