Hos"tel (?), n. [OE. hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel, LL. hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. hospitalis. See Hospital, and cf. Hotel.]
1.
An inn.
[Archaic]
Poe.
So pass I hostel, hall, and grange.
Tennyson.
2.
A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
[Obs.]
Holinshed.
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