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Synonyms for inn

Most common

hotel lodge lodging house hostelry pub tavern

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Hotel — any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink

hotel, lodging house, hostelry, lodge, hostel, auberge

2. Tavern — A tavern

tavern, public house UK, pub

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.

  2. n. 2

    A tavern.

Related words

Word family
innkeeper
Phrases
motor inn coaching inn coach inn

Forms

Plural
inns → hotels, hostelries, lodges, hostels…

Example sentences

  • hotel What was the name of the hotel? I can't recall it.
  • lodge Tom stayed in the ski lodge while Mary went skiing.
  • hostelry At nightfall, a group of twenty-nine came into that hostelry.
  • pub When you were at the cinema, we were down the pub.
  • tavern Saddled horses waited for us in front of the tavern.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
innrising
hotelrising
lodgerising
hostelryrising
pubrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
pub1
5 letters
hotel2, lodge1
6 letters
tavern2, hostel2
7 letters
auberge
8 letters
hostelry

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hotel2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
auberge
Italiano
locanda
Español
albergue
Deutsch
Gasthaus
Català
alberg