inn
IPA: ˈɪn
noun
- Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
- A tavern.
- One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
- (Britain, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
- (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
- A right tributary of the Danube in Switzerland, Austria and Germany
- (pharmacology) Initialism of international nonproprietary name. [(pharmacology) An official generic and nonproprietary name given to a pharmaceutical drug or an active ingredient, as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).]
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To house; to lodge.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To take lodging; to lodge.
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Examples of "inn" in Sentences
- The inn is the best-looking place I have ever been to.
- All the water throughout the inn is purified for safety.
- Great hosts and the "inn" is just so perfect for a base of travel in and around Oaxaca.
- The inn is gone but the Beachwood Yacht Club still exists, although not in the original building.
- The inn is in the village of Stretton, just off the A1 in that part of Rutland that is more like Lincolnshire in character.
- I had a choice of inns there (if one used the term inn in its loosest sense), and I chose the place with the attempt at flowers near the entrance.
- The inn is the pet project of Canadian construction magnate Cliff Lede (that's his eponymous winery directly below) and takes its name from his top red blend, also called Poetry.
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