Hostel vs Shelter - What's the difference?
hostel | shelter |
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 refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
* Dryden
* Southey
To take cover.
As nouns the difference between hostel and shelter
is that hostel is a commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel while shelter is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.As a verb shelter is
to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.hostel
English
Noun
(wikipedia hostel) (en noun)- (Holinshed)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* hosteler, hosteller * hostelryAnagrams
* ----shelter
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
Derived terms
* bus shelterVerb
(en verb)- Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
- You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
- During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.