- (British English, old-fashioned)
a pub, usually in the country and often one where people can stay the night （通常指乡村的，常可夜宿的）小酒店 It was very warm in the inn. 客栈里很暖和。 The hotel is a former coaching inn that dates from 1780. 该酒店是一家建于1780年的前教练酒店。 We had dinner at the inn. 我们在旅馆吃了晚饭。 The building was a 16th-century coaching inn. 这栋建筑在16世纪是一个驿站。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- local
- country
- old
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- stay at
- stay in
- own
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- (North American English)
a small hotel, usually in the country （通常指乡村的）小旅馆，客栈 We stayed at a country inn. 我们住在一家乡村旅馆。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- local
- country
- old
- …
- stay at
- stay in
- own
- …
- Inn
used in the names of many pubs, hotels and restaurants （用于客栈、旅馆和饭店的名称中） Holiday Inn 假日酒店
Word OriginOld English (in the sense ‘dwelling place, lodging’): of Germanic origin; related to in. In Middle English the word was used to translate Latin hospitium (see hospice), denoting a house of residence for students: this sense is preserved in Britian in the names of some buildings formerly used for this purpose, notably Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn, two of the Inns of Court, which are the four organizations in England with the authority to allow lawyers to become barristers. The current sense dates from late Middle English.