youth hostel

1. 1.

   inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)

   Synonymshostelstudent lodging

   Broaderhousing

Questions about youth hostel

What does youth hostel mean?

youth hostel means "inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)".

What is another word for youth hostel?

Close synonyms include hostel, student lodging. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is youth hostel a common word?

youth hostel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.