inn
/ɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.07 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
noun
A tavern.
Example Sentences
- "[H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn."
- "One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier."
- "the Inns of Court the Inns of Chancery Serjeants’ Inns"
- "Leicester Inn"
- "But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke."
- "Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: in, inn