inn /ˈɪn/
 小旅館,客棧;小酒店,小飯店


 Inn n.
 1. A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode. [Obs.]
 Therefore with me ye may take up your inn
 For this same night.   --Spenser.
 2. A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.
 Note: ☞ As distinguished from a private boarding house, an inn is a house for the entertainment of all travelers of good conduct and means of payment, as guests for a brief period, not as lodgers or boarders by contract.
    The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn.   --W. Irving.
 3. The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn. [Eng.]
 4. 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.
 Inns of chancery Eng., colleges in which young students formerly began their law studies, now occupied chiefly bp attorn`ys, solocitors, etc.
 Inns of court Eng., the four societies of “students and practicers of the law of England” which in London exercise the exclusive right of admitting persons to practice at the bar; also, the buildings in which the law students and barristers have their chambers. They are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn.


 Inn v. i.   [imp. & p. p. Inned p. pr. & vb. n. Inning.] To take lodging; to lodge. [R.]


 Inn, v. t.
 1. To house; to lodge. [Obs.]
 When he had brought them into his city
 And inned them, everich at his degree.   --Chaucer.
 2. To get in; to in. See In, v. t.

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 inn
      n : a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn: hostel,
           hostelry, lodge]


 Inn
    in the modern sense, unknown in the East. The khans or
    caravanserais, which correspond to the European inn, are not
    alluded to in the Old Testament. The "inn" mentioned in Ex. 4:24
    was just the halting-place of the caravan. In later times khans
    were erected for the accommodation of travellers. In Luke 2:7
    the word there so rendered denotes a place for loosing the
    beasts of their burdens. It is rendered "guest-chamber" in Mark
    14:14 and Luke 22:11. In Luke 10:34 the word so rendered is
    different. That inn had an "inn-keeper," who attended to the
    wants of travellers.