inn.
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
Meaning & usage
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
A tavern.
One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
the Inns of Court the Inns of Chancery Serjeants’ Inns
The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
Leicester Inn
A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).
To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.
To lodge or house (someone or something).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).
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