Meaning of Inn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A right tributary of the Danube in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
2. Initialism of international nonproprietary name.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
4. A tavern.
5. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
6. The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
   British, dated
7. A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
   obsolete

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Examples

“[H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.”

“One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.”

“the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns”

“Leicester Inn”

“But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.”

“Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.”

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