喜樂美語
  1. 1客棧、小旅館(常見於店名中,帶有復古溫馨的感覺)

    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.

From the word’s history

From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn 'a dwelling, house, lodging'.

源自古英文 inn「住處、房舍」。

Wiktionary

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，摘錄並精簡格式，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

  • 1

    A right tributary of the Danube in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

innnoun/ɪn/

  • 1

    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
  • 5

    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/

  • 1

    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：

  • international nonproprietary name

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。