Definition of Inn

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Definition of Inn

Inn

A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.

A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.

The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn.

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.

To take lodging; to lodge.

To house; to lodge.

To get in; to in. See In, v. t.

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Inn Quotations

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.
Jimmy Buffett

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.
Maureen O'Hara

We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.
Victor Garber

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
Adelbert von Chamisso

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.
Frankie Avalon

We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.
William Bell

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
Jay McShann

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
Ruth Pitter

Inn Translations

inn in Danish is kro
inn in Dutch is logement, herberg
inn in French is auberge
inn in German is Gasthof, Wirtshaus
inn in Italian is osteria
inn in Latin is hospitium, tabernus
inn in Norwegian is kro, vertshus
inn in Spanish is posada, albergue, fonda

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