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A small, often old-fashioned hotel, usually in the countryside, that also serves food and drinks - the kind of place travelers stayed at before big modern hotels existed. Today the word still shows up in the names of hotels and pubs to give a cozy, traditional feel.
客棧、小旅館(常見於店名中,帶有復古溫馨的感覺)
組成From an Old English word meaning 'a place to stay' - literally a place you go IN to rest for the night.
同家族的字
- ininn comes from an old word meaning lodging - literally a place you go 'in' to rest
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Innname
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A right tributary of the Danube in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
innnoun/ɪn/
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Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
- [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.
- 2
A tavern.
- 3
One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
- the Inns of Court the Inns of Chancery Serjeants’ Inns
- 4
datedThe town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
- Leicester Inn
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obsoleteA place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
- 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.
innverb/ɪn/
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obsoleteTo take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.
- But where do you intend to inn to-night?
- We inned at the signe of the Swan.
- 2
obsoleteTo lodge or house (someone or something).
- I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone.
- These Inn'd themselves all Night in Knights-bridge Fields.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。