INN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inn mean? 

• INN (noun)
  The noun INN has 1 sense:

1. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

  Familiarity information: INN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

auberge; hostel; hostelry; inn; lodge

Hypernyms ("inn" is a kind of...):

hotel (a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inn"):

caravan inn; caravansary; caravanserai; khan (an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans)

imaret (a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey)

post house; posthouse (an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders)

roadhouse (an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling)

 Context examples 

Together we stole down to the road and crept across to the door of the inn.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The youth went with the waggoner, and in the evening they arrived at an inn where they wished to pass the night.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I was placed upon a table in the largest room of the inn, which might be near three hundred feet square.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Em'ly got to France, and took service to wait on travelling ladies at a inn in the port.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no distance from the station, and there we found the young lady waiting for us.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I inquired the way to the inn, but no one replied.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When I looked out of my window just after the clock had gone ten, there was not a light in the village save only at the inn.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne set spurs to his horse and reached the inn door a long bow-shot before his companions.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At that another fellow, probably him who had remained below to search the captain's body, came to the door of the inn.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)