Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. a supervised, inexpensive lodging place, primarily for young people
WordNet
n. inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) [syn: hostel, student lodging]
Usage examples of "youth hostel".
Directly across the road was the Walasi-Yi Inn, a splendid stone building constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (a kind of army of the unemployed) during the Great Depression and now a combination hiking outfitters, grocery, bookshop, and youth hostel.
Found a youth hostel and then headed south with a couple in their early thirties who had stayed at the hostel and they gave me a ride.
Then, well-fed and happy, they made their way back to the Youth Hostel.
After leaving Cassie at the fairgrounds, she and Dar had headed for the youth hostel.
He asked me if it was safe to sleep in the park in Alma Ata, since he had no money for even a youth hostel.
I went up around Mount Buller as far as the Youth Hostel hut and then down to the King River and along by Mount Cobbler and the Rose River.
It had eighteen rooms and was listed in some European youth hostel guides, although it was known in the international community as a nice, out-of-the-way spot for both dealers and addicts.
He'd met Jane one summer in a youth hostel in the Lake District, and they'd married while he was still at college because the oldest of the little girls was imminent.
When the empire was broken up, it became a tourist hotel, and then after the Second World War a youth hostel.
The tall masts of the sailing ship Wasa, now a youth hostel, lifted like pointing fingers.