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# inn

«inn» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small hotel or pub, often in the countryside or an old…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an inn, inns)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An inn is a small hotel or pub, often in the countryside or an old building, where travellers can eat, drink and stay the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inn/#m1)

2) (Bible) In the Christmas story, there was no room for Mary and Joseph at the inn in Bethlehem, so Jesus was born where animals were kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inn/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and history lessons, travellers on horseback stopped at inns; in nativity plays a child plays the innkeeper. In everyday life many British pubs are called «The Something Inn». Phrases: «stay at an inn», «there was no room at the inn», «innkeeper», «roadside inn».

### examples

- We had lunch at an old inn in the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inn/#x1)
- There was no room at the inn for Mary and Joseph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inn/#x2)
- In the nativity play, I was the innkeeper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inn/#x3)
- The tired travellers stopped at an inn for the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inn/#x4)
- The Good Samaritan took the hurt man to an inn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inn/#x5)
- The Red Lion Inn has a big fireplace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inn/#x6)
- The inn had rooms upstairs and a bar below. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inn/#x7)
- There was an inn by the roadside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inn/#x8)

### note

Countable: inns. Homophone: «in» (preposition) sounds the same. Old-fashioned word; today «hotel», «pub» or «B&B» are common.

### In the corpora

- [Hungry, he walks into the Red Lion inn in a little town and orders the best lunch they have.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/2/)
- [Caravanserais, inns spaced about a day's journey apart, gave caravans safe places to rest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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