Hos"tel (?), n. [OE.
hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel,
LL. hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L.
hospitalis. See Hospital, and cf. Hotel.]
1. An inn. [Archaic] Poe.
So pass I hostel, hall, and grange.
Tennyson.
2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or
Cambridge. [Obs.] Holinshed.