Inn

Pronunciation

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

Origin

Old English inn.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• NNI