inns

Noun

inn (plural inns)

1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
   • [H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Adventure of My Uncle”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea...

   Synonyms:

   hotel, lodging, lodging house

2. A tavern.

   Synonyms:

   alehouse, boozer, boozing ken, bousing ken, drinker, drinkery, gargle-factory, gin joint, groggery, local

3. 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
4. (UK, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
   • Leicester Inn
5. (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
   • But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso

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