<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Also called youth hostel.</li><li>an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.</li><li>(formerly) a residence for the exclusive use of boarding Indigenous students, separate from but close to any of a series of day schools in northern Canada that were operated or funded by the federal government and were themselves open to students of any ethnicity.</li><li>residential school.</li><li>British: a student residence at a university or boarding school.</li><li>an inn.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to travel, lodging each night at a hostel.</li></ul>