Hostel vs Backpack - What's the difference?
hostel | backpack |
A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel
(not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food
(obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking]], or on a student's back when [[carry, carrying books.
A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.
To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.
To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.
As nouns the difference between hostel and backpack
is that hostel is a commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel while backpack is a knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking]], or on a student's back when [[carry|carrying books.As a verb backpack is
to hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.hostel
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(wikipedia hostel) (en noun)- (Holinshed)
