hostel

Definitions

hostel comes from Old French hostel ('lodging'), from Latin hospitāle ('guest-house'). It is the same word as hotel before French smoothed away the 's' — so hostel keeps the older, plainer sense: simple, cheap lodging rather than a full-service hotel.

Common Collocations

• 1.youth hostel青年旅舍
• 2.hostel bed旅舍床位
• 3.backpacker hostel背包客旅舍
• 4.stay in a hostel住旅舍

Example Sentences

• 1.

  We stayed in a youth hostel to save money on the trip.

• 2.

  The hostel had clean dormitories and a shared kitchen.

• 3.

  Backpackers often book a hostel bed for just one night.

Easily Confused

hostel vs hotel vs hostile — hostel (cheap shared lodging) and hotel (private, serviced rooms) are the same root split apart; hostile (unfriendly) is unrelated in meaning but sounds almost identical to hostel in American English. Sleep cheap → hostel; sleep in comfort → hotel; a feeling → hostile.