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# hostel

«hostel» in Mova's school dictionary: **A cheap place to stay, often with shared rooms and bunk…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a hostel, hostels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cheap place to stay, often with shared rooms and bunk beds, for travellers and young people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostel/#m1)

2) A building where people who have no home or are students can live for a time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life families or school groups stay at a youth hostel on trips. In social studies a hostel may be a place for homeless people to sleep. In stories it shows a simple, cheap stay. Phrases: youth hostel, stay in a hostel.

### examples

- Our class stayed at a youth hostel in the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostel/#x1)
- The hostel had bunk beds and a shared kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostel/#x2)
- Backpackers often sleep in hostels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostel/#x3)
- The city opened a new hostel for homeless people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostel/#x4)
- We cooked our own breakfast at the hostel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostel/#x5)
- The hostel was full, so we found a campsite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostel/#x6)

### note

Countable. Not the same as «hostile» (unfriendly) or «hotel» (bigger, more expensive, private rooms). Spelling: -el at the end.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hostel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.