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hostelries

hostelries is the plural of hostelry.

hostelries is the plural of hostelrie.

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

Questions about hostelries

What is hostelries the plural of?
Hostelries is the plural of hostelry.

Words near hostelries in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hostelries (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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