Inn
Pronunciation
- enPR: Än, IPA: /ɪn/
- Rhymes: -ɪn
- Homophones: in
Origin
Old English inn.
Noun
inn
(plural inns)- 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.
- A tavern.
- 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
- (UK, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.Leicester Inn
- (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
- SpenserTherefore with me ye may take up your inn
For this same night.