• Inn

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: Ä­n, IPA: /ɪn/
    • Rhymes: -ɪn
    • Homophones: in

    Origin

    Old English inn.

    Noun

    inn

    (plural inns)
    1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
      • Washington Irvingthe miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn
      • 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 4, One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
    2. A tavern.
    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; habitation; residence; abode.
      • SpenserTherefore with me ye may take up your inn
        For this same night.

    Synonyms

    Full definition of inn

    Verb

    1. (obsolete, transitive) To house; to lodge.
    2. (obsolete, intransitive) To take lodging; to lodge.

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