- an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- (formerly) a residence for the exclusive use of boarding Indigenous students, separate from but close to any of a series of day schools in northern Canada that were operated or funded by the federal government and were themselves open to students of any ethnicity.
- a student residence at a university or boarding school.
- an inn.
- to travel, lodging each night at a hostel.
- a building providing overnight accommodation, as for the homeless, etc
- See youth hostel
- a supervised lodging house for nurses, workers, etc
- archaic another word for hostelry
