inn
a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,156 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,183 times across 157,096 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers also: hostel, hostelry, lodge, auberge
inn in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Its icy slope, scored by innumerable runners, looked like a mirror scratched by travellers at an inn.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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The town is full of people, great and small, Each inn is crowded to its very wall.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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Mr. Pixley he knew, by repute only, as the head of Pixley's, the great law-firm, in Lincoln's Inn.
Pearl of Pearl Island · John Oxenham · Chapter 1
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Upon entering the inn, we noticed many other wayfarers, who had put up there to escape the storm.
The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction · 20-66 Petronius Arbiter · Chapter 1
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Toward evening he came to a good Inn and asked the inn-keeper if he could have food and lodging.
The Magic of Oz · L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum · Chapter 1