inn

Etymology

From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭn, IPA^(key): /ɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: in

Noun

inn (plural inns)

1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
   • Washington Irving

     the miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

2. A tavern.
3. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.

   the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns

4. (Britain, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.

   Leicester Inn

5. (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

   • Spenser

     Therefore with me ye may take up your inn / For this same night.

Verb

inn (third-person singular simple present inns, present participle inning, simple past and past participle inned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To house; to lodge.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To take lodging; to lodge.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

See also

Anagrams

• NIN, NNI, Nin, nin

Preposition

inn

1. Obsolete spelling of in

Romanization

inn

1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌽𐌽

Adverb

inn

1. in, inside

   Hvenær komumst við inn?

   When can we get inside?

Noun

inn

1. Alternative form of in (“inn”)

Etymology

From Old Norse inn

Adverb

inn

1. inside, in (indicating movement into)

   La oss gå inn.

   Let's go inside.

2. in, into

   Hun gikk inn i huset.

   She went into the house.

References

• “inn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Old Norse inn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnː/

Adverb

inn

1. inside, in (indicating movement into)

   Lat oss gå inn.

   Let's go inside.

2. in, into

   Ho gjekk inn i huset.

   She went into the house.

References

• “inn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

Probably from inne (“in, inside”).

Noun

inn n

1. inn

Alternative forms

• hinn

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *jainaz (“that over there, yon”). Cognate with Old English ġeon, Old Frisian jen, jena, Old High German jēner, Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains).

Article

inn (feminine in, neuter it)

1. the (definite article)

References

• inn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press