What does inn mean?
Definitions for inn
ɪninn
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word inn.
Princeton's WordNet
hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, aubergenoun
a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
Wiktionary
innnoun
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
innnoun
A tavern.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
INNnoun
A house of entertainment for travellers.
Etymology: inn, Saxon, a chamber.
How all this is but a fair inn,
Of fairer guests which dwell within. Philip Sidney, b. ii.Palmer, quoth he, death is an equal doom
To good and bad, the common inn of rest;
But, after death, the trial is to come,
When best shall be to them that lived best. Fairy Queen.Now day is spent,
Therefore with me ye may take up your inn. Fairy Queen.The West, that glimmers with some streaks of day,
Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.That very hour, and in the self-same inn,
A poor mean woman was delivered. William Shakespeare.Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend;
The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. Dryden.One may learn more here in one day, than in a year's rambling from one inn to another. John Locke.
Go some and pull down the Savoy; others to the inns of courts: down with them all. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.
To Innverb
To house; to put under cover.
He that ears my land, spares my team, and gives me leave to inn the crop. William Shakespeare, All's well that ends well.
Howsoever the laws made in that parliament did bear good fruit, yet the subsidy bare a fruit that proved harsh and bitter: all was inned at last into the king's barn. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.
Mow clover or rye-grass, and make it fit to inn. John Mortimer.
To Innverb
To take up temporary lodging.
Etymology: from the noun.
In thyself dwell;
Inn any where: continuance maketh hell. John Donne.
Wikipedia
Inn
Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway; before the advent of motorized transportation they also provided accommodation for horses.
ChatGPT
inn
An inn is a small hotel or lodging establishment which often offers additional amenities such as meals and recreations. Traditionally, inns were typically located in the countryside or along a highway; however, they can be found in a variety of settings. They may also provide accommodations for travelers and their vehicles, such as horses in the past and cars in contemporary times.
Webster Dictionary
Innnoun
a place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode
Innnoun
a house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel
Innnoun
the town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn
Innnoun
one of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns
Innverb
to take lodging; to lodge
Innverb
to house; to lodge
Innverb
to get in; to in. See In, v. t
Etymology: [AS. in, inn, house, chamber, inn, from AS. in in; akin to Icel. inni house. See In.]
Wikidata
Inn
Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging and, usually, food and drink. They are typically located in the country or along a highway. There are inns in Europe, Asia and North America.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Inn
in, n. a public house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers: a hotel, tavern: (obs.) a lodging, a place of abode.—ns. Inn′-hold′er (Bacon), one who keeps an inn; Inn′keeper, one who keeps an inn.—Inns of Court, the name given to the four voluntary societies which have the exclusive right of calling persons to the English bar (Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn). [A.S. in, inn, an inn, house—in, inn, within (adv.), from the prep. in, in.]
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Etymology and Origins
Inn
The Anglo-Saxon word Inne expressed a mansion. The Inns of Court were originally the town houses of noble families, whose name they still bear--e.g. Gray’s Inn. Our first inns set apart for the entertainment of travellers were in all cases the mansions of the nobility left in charge of the trusted servant, the gamekeeper, during the prolonged absence, either in the wars at home or in the Crusades abroad, of their owners. The family arms served as a sign. After the return of his master the servant, now an innkeeper, set up an inn of his own contiguous to the original, and adopted the same sign. Here we have an explanation of such grotesque inn signs--now that their names have taken the place of the painted device--as the Blue Boar, the Red Lion, etc. At times the innkeeper preferred the sign of the “Green Man.”
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
INN
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Inn is ranked #77522 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Inn surname appeared 247 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Inn.
71.6% or 177 total occurrences were Asian.
11.7% or 29 total occurrences were White.
10.9% or 27 total occurrences were of two or more races.
3.6% or 9 total occurrences were Black.
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British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'inn' in Nouns Frequency: #1978
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Anagrams for inn »
NNI
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of inn in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of inn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of inn in a Sentence
There are a lot of talented people that can't, just can't, go out and buy an inn like this, now all they need to do is write and convince me.
What Governor Abbott has done here is clearly illegal and sends a message to Texans that there is no room at the inn for anyone but Christians.
I wasn't involved in the Inn Din killing, i absolutely haven't committed any other killings, either.
The Commander-in-Chief released these criminals after only months in prison, while the journalists who told the world about the killings in Inn Din were jailed for more than 500 days.
There's no more room at the inn, but we are compelled by local laws here that we must provide shelter and continue to move in the right direction.
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- خمارةArabic
- ҡунаҡханаBashkir
- гасці́ніцаBelarusian
- ubytovna, hostinecCzech
- HerbergeGerman
- πανδοχείο, χάνιGreek
- gastejoEsperanto
- posadaSpanish
- مهمانسراPersian
- matkustajakoti, matkakoti, majataloFinnish
- aubergeFrench
- teach óstaIrish
- albergoIdo
- locanda, osteriaItalian
- אכסניהHebrew
- 旅館, 宿屋Japanese
- ភោជនាល័យKhmer
- dēverticulum, hospitium, hospitāculumLatin
- wharetiraMāori
- ан, гостилница, конакMacedonian
- дэн буудал, хотоос зайдуу орших зочид буудалMongolian
- herbergDutch
- gjestgiveri, vertshusNorwegian
- zajazdPolish
- alberguePortuguese
- hanRomanian
- гостиница, трактир, постоялый дворRussian
- gästgiveri, värdshusSwedish
- ஹோட்டலுக்குள்Tamil
- హోటలు, ధాభాTelugu
- hanTurkish
- 旅店Chinese
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