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King George II Inn in Bristol, Pennsylvania, founded in 1681, the oldest United States–based inn American Scenery—the Inn on the Roadside, an 1872 portrait. Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway.
The word derives from the Latin taberna whose original meaning was a shed, workshop, stall, or pub. Over time, the words "tavern" and "inn" became interchangeable and synonymous. In England, inns started to be referred to as public houses or pubs and the term became standard for all drinking houses.
An International Nonproprietary Name (INN) is an official generic and nonproprietary name given to a pharmaceutical substance or an active ingredient. [1] INNs are intended to make communication more precise by providing a unique standard name for each active ingredient, to avoid prescribing errors. [2]
An inn is an establishment where travelers can procure food, drink and lodging. Inn can also refer to: Inn (river), which flows through Switzerland, Austria and Germany; Inn (district of Switzerland), a district in Switzerland named for the river Inn; Inner automorphism, in mathematics, a set of functions on groups
In North America, the lodging aspect of the word "inn" lives on in hotel brand names like Holiday Inn, and in some state laws that refer to lodging operators as innkeepers. The Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery in London started as ordinary inns where barristers met to do business, but became institutions of the legal profession in England and ...
A caravanserai (or caravansary; / k ær ə ˈ v æ n s ə ˌ r aɪ /) [1] was a roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey. [2] Caravanserais supported the flow of commerce, information, and people across the network of trade routes covering Asia, North Africa and Southeast Europe , most notably the Silk Road .
The word is spelled "hostler" in American English, but "ostler" in British English.It traces to c. 1386, meaning "one who tends to horses at an inn"—and also, occasionally, "innkeeper"—is derived from Anglo-French hostiler (modern French hostelier), itself from Medieval Latin hostilarius "the monk who entertains guests at a monastery", from hospitale "inn" (compare hospital, hospitaller ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.