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hostelrie

hostelrie is the obsolete form of hostelry.

Meaning of hostelry

Noun

hostelry (countable and uncountable, plural hostelries)

  1. (countable) An inn that provides overnight accommodation for travellers (and, originally, their horses).
  2. (uncountable) The art and skill of guest management at a commercial facility such as a hotel, inn, motel, bed and breakfast, or hostel.
    • the hostelry trade

Forms of hostelrie

pluralhostelries

Questions about hostelrie

What is hostelrie the obsolete form of?
Hostelrie is the obsolete form of hostelry.

Words near hostelrie in the dictionary

  1. hostelites
  2. hostelled
  3. hosteller
  4. hostellers
  5. hostelling
  6. hostelrie
  7. hostelries
  8. hostelry
  9. hostels
  10. hoster
  11. Hosterman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hostelrie (page history and authors); hostelry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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