1. An inn. "So pass I hostel, hall, and grange." (Tennyson)

2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

Origin: OE. Hostel, ostel, OF. Hostel, ostel, LL. Hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. Hospitalis. See Hospital, and cf. Hotel.

(01 Mar 1998)

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