Inn
[ɪn]
Definition
(n.) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
(n.) A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.
(n.) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn.
(n.) One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns.
(v. i.) To take lodging; to lodge.
(v. t.) To house; to lodge.
(v. t.) To get in; to in. See In, v. t.
Typist: Randall
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tavern, hotel, cabaret, CARAVANSARY, public house, house of entertainment.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hotel, tavern, public_house
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Definition
n. a public house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers: a hotel tavern: (obs.) a lodging a place of abode.—ns. Inn′-hold′er (Bacon) one who keeps an inn; Inn′keeper one who keeps an inn.—Inns of Court the name given to the four voluntary societies which have the exclusive right of calling persons to the English bar (Inner Temple Middle Temple Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn).
Editor: Peter
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of an inn, denotes prosperity and pleasures, if the inn is commodious and well furnished. To be at a dilapidated and ill kept inn, denotes poor success, or mournful tasks, or unhappy journeys.
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Examples
- The quality of hotels is shown by an inn with one, two, three, or four gables, and so forth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The yard presented none of that bustle and activity which are the usual characteristics of a large coach inn. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The feverish young inn-keeper and ex-engineer started like Satan at the touch of Ithuriel's spear. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There is, as you may have observed, a bicycle shop next to our inn. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- What was formerly a seat of the family of Seymour, is now an inn upon the Bath road. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At the same time, a low whistle is wafted through the Inn and a suppressed voice cries, Hip! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When they present themselves in Lincoln's Inn Fields, Mr. Tulkinghorn is engaged and not to be seen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A great crowd assembles in Lincoln's Inn Fields on the day of the funeral. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You must go to Melchisedech's in Clifford's Inn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We'll take a snack, and order dinner at the little inn--the Lennard Arms, it used to be,--and go and get an appetite in the forest. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- As he had nothing else than his majority to come into, the event did not make a profound sensation in Barnard's Inn. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He has put up for the night, at an Angler's Inn,' was the fatigued and hoarse reply. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Dine with me and Fritz at the inn in the park. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We were eating at the inn from where the buses leave and the room was crowded and people were singing and there was difficulty serving. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Was not this intimacy with the prisoner, in reality a very slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- All the unowned dogs who stray into the Inns of Court and pant about staircases and other dry places seeking water give short howls of aggravation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Curious little nooks in a great place, like London, these old inns are. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And at the different inns? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Here and there, on the fronts of roadside inns, we found huge, coarse frescoes of suffering martyrs like those in the shrines. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Ah,' said Mr. Pickwick, half aside to Sam, 'it's a curious circumstance, Sam, that they call the old women in these inns, laundresses. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Have you had inquiries made at inns and lodgings? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There were Blue shops and Buff shops, Blue inns and Buff inns--there was a Blue aisle and a Buff aisle in the very church itself. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You'll draw old Jack Bamber out; he was never heard to talk about anything else but the inns, and he has lived alone in them till he's half crazy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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