INNKEEPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does innkeeper mean? 

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

1. the owner or manager of an inn

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INNKEEPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The owner or manager of an inn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

boniface; host; innkeeper

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

patron (the proprietor of an inn)

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

hostess (a woman innkeeper)

padrone (an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy)

victualer; victualler (an innkeeper (especially British))

 Context examples 

Then he went to the innkeeper, who opened his eyes very wide, and said: I never expected to see you alive again!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Hola, Gaffer Higginson!” cried Aylward, as he spied the portly figure of the village innkeeper.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Morland remonstrated, pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers, and milestones; but his friend disregarded them all; he had a surer test of distance.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)