inn

Word family

Related topics: Tourism, Food, Daily life

inn /ɪn/ noun [countableC] → in

1. DLTDFa small hotel or pub, especially an old one in the countryside 〔尤指乡村中古老的〕小旅馆，小酒馆► see thesaurus at hotel →4 See picture on 见图 Page A11 Where to stay 住的地方

2 Da word used in the names of some pubs and hotels 〔用于某些酒馆、酒店的名称中〕

We’re staying at the Holiday Inn.

我们住在假日酒店。

Examples from the Corpus

inn• His penance was to build an inn and hospital for the poor at the mouth of a river.• It was like an inn and had stables and barns.• An inn and a few old cottages stood to one side of the lock.• Many years ago opposite the church was the Bay Horse inn.• In 1924, the inn became the CamdenRockland Water Co.• The truth was sometimes very simple, Guy decided, as he led Chalon over to the open doorway of the inn.• Where the inn is full there is no duty to accommodate.• The inn opens for lunch on the weekends starting in mid-May.

Origin inn

Old English

inn noun

Chinese

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