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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
innkeeper
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also patron of boatmen, ferrymen, hotel employees, and innkeepers.
▪ An innkeeper can refuse service to any person who is not in a fit state to be received at the inn.
▪ As an innkeeper and market gardener near Sinope, Phocas would give his excess crops to the poor.
▪ But something innkeeper Darlene Elders said over breakfast piqued their interest.
▪ Major routes were cart-tracks and marauding bandits and unscrupulous innkeepers thought nothing of robbery and murder.
▪ Men are shown in different roles, as innkeepers, shepherds, wise men and fathers.
▪ The fat innkeeper was listening intently, his little black eyes glittering.
▪ This daughter of an innkeeper married Constantius, the Roman general, in 270.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Innkeeper

Innkeeper \Inn"keep`er\, n. One who keeps an inn; the proprietor or manager of an inn or hotel.

Syn: innholder.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
innkeeper

1540s, from inn + keeper.

Wiktionary
innkeeper

n. The person responsible for the running of an inn, usually the proprietor.

WordNet
innkeeper

n. the owner or manager of an inn [syn: host, boniface]

Usage examples of "innkeeper".

Adam saw Paul, the innkeeper, standing under his new alestake, and the two near-neighbors nodded to each other as Adam, still grinning, turned off to the left, up the street beside his shop.

Col began his career, earning his bed and board took a whole evening of songs, with all profits from increased business going to the innkeeper.

The innkeeper hailed him in a gruffy, sing-song manner, wrinkling his stump of a nose like a charging bull, and running a hand through his greasy hair to make it stick upwards in a haphazard manner, which he apparently thought made him handsome.

Franz Bauer, I found a considerable crowd of people in the common room, and, in the midst of them, the innkeeper, Christian Hauck, in altercation with a stranger.

He then repeated his accusations against the innkeeper, Hauck, saying that Hauck, or, rather, another man who resembled Hauck and who had claimed to be the innkeeper, had drugged his wine and stolen his coach and made off with his secretary and his servants.

I returned to the common room, he was nowhere to be seen, and this other fellow, who has given his name as Christian Hauck, claimed to be the innkeeper and denied knowledge of any of the things I have just stated.

Christian Hauck, innkeeper, taken at the police station at Perleburg, 25 November, 1809.

I called for the innkeeper, ordered a carriage for the clergyman, and desired that a fire might be lit for me in the next room where I would sleep, but the good priest said that it was unnecessary, because there were two large beds in our room, that one would be for me and the other for him and his niece.

Tom told the innkeeper as they finished lunching and prepared to leave.

I told the innkeeper, Madame Mignon Lodi-Clarion, a cross sort, and thin as a stick, that I wanted Mimi with me, that I needed her help during the night, with Father, but Madame insisted.

The innkeeper herself was sitting at the back of the room near the railless white stone stairs, keeping an eye on everything, with a young, pretty woman whose big black eyes had a merry twinkle, as though she knew a joke no one else did.

The woman Bourget, Vauthier, the Chaussards, Pannier, the woman Lechantre, Mallet and Ratel, all participated in the crime in their several degrees, as did the innkeepers Melin, Binet, Laraviniere, and Chargegrain.

Or had she already made up her mind that he was nothing more than the scaff and raff the innkeeper had called him?

Tam stood in front of the big fireplace of river rock, thumbing a long-stemmed pipe full of tabac from a polished canister the innkeeper always kept on the plain stone mantel.

The Long Man, where a golden crown tossed to the round innkeeper produced an almost reverent curtsy and a small private dining room, dark-paneled, with heavily polished table and chairs and dried flowers in a blue vase on the hearth.