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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
Synonyms:
auberge; hostel; hostelry; inn; lodge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("inn" is a kind of...):
hotel (a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inn"):
caravan inn; caravansary; caravanserai; khan (an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans)
imaret (a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey)
post house; posthouse (an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders)
roadhouse (an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb inn
Context examples:
My dear sir, if you did anything so foolish you would probably enlarge the two limited titles of our village inns by giving us ‘The Dangling Prussian’ as a signpost.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here we were rescued from the limited attractions of the local inn by Mr. Shortman, the representative of the British and Brazilian Trading Company.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now and then it is very well; but going to inns and public places together!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She had before conjectured him to be a stranger like themselves, and determined that a well-looking groom, who was strolling about near the two inns as they came back, should be his servant.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I could find it nowhere but at the inn, and thither, ere long, I returned.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She had not been many hours at home before she found that the Brighton scheme, of which Lydia had given them a hint at the inn, was under frequent discussion between her parents.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A room at an inn was always damp and dangerous; never properly aired, or fit to be inhabited.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
At the inn, as I entered, I looked about me with so black a countenance as made the attendants tremble; not a look did they exchange in my presence; but obsequiously took my orders, led me to a private room, and brought me wherewithal to write.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He went to while away the next three hours as he could, with his other acquaintance, till the best dinner that a capital inn afforded was ready for their enjoyment, and she turned in to her more simple one immediately.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
We had an inn and two houses a little above us, and a single cottage at the other side of the field which faces us, and except those there were no houses until you got half way to the station.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
