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