inn·keep·er

(ĭn′kē′pər)

One who owns or manages an inn or hotel.

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innkeeper

(ˈɪnˌkiːpə)

(Professions) an owner or manager of an inn

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inn•keep•er

(ˈɪnˌki pər)

n.

a person who owns or manages an inn or, sometimes, a hotel.

[1540–50]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

innkeeper - the owner or manager of an inn

boniface, host

hostess - a woman innkeeper

padrone - an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy

patron - the proprietor of an inn

victualer, victualler - an innkeeper (especially British)

innkeeper

noun publican, hotelier, mine host, host or hostess, landlord or landlady He played the part of the innkeeper in the school nativity play.

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Translations

صاحِب نُزُل أو فُنْدُق

hospodský

krovært

Gastwirt Wirt

aubergiste

fogadós

gestgjafi, kráreigandi

albergatore locandiere oste

krovert

hancımeyhaneci

小旅馆老板

innkeeper

[ˈɪnkiːpəʳ] N [of pub] → tabernero/a m/f (archaic) → posadero/a m/f, mesonero/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

innkeeper

[ˈɪnkiːpə^r] n → aubergiste m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

innkeeper

n → (Gast)wirt(in) m(f)

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innkeeper

[ˈɪnˌkiːpəʳ] n → locandiere/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

inn

(in) noun

1. a name given to some small hotels or public houses especially in villages or the countryside.

2. in former times, a house providing food and lodging for travellers.

ˈinnkeeper noun

a person who owned or ran such a house.

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When he had waited some days in vain, he saw the Innkeeper dressed in a new and handsome coat and sitting before his door.

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On the mantelpiece was arrayed the innkeeper's collection of figured earthenware pots and stone jugs.

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One of them had to go home to try on a ball-dress; for it was just the dress and the ball which had caused her to be confirmed this time, for otherwise she would not have come; the other was a poor boy, who had borrowed his coat and boots to be confirmed in from the innkeeper's son, and he was to give them back by a certain hour; the third said that he never went to a strange place if his parents were not with him--that he had always been a good boy hitherto, and would still be so now that he was confirmed, and that one ought not to laugh at him for it: the others, however, did make fun of him, after all.

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"Yes, sir," answered the Innkeeper, winking in a knowing way at the Fox and the Cat, as if to say, "I understand."

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At these words Alpatych nodded as if in approval, and not wishing to hear more went to the door of the room opposite the innkeeper's, where he had left his purchases.

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Vincy had descended a little, having taken an innkeeper's daughter.

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"There's motor-cars, right enough," the innkeeper replied, "but not many as would be fools enough to take one out.

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A Coffin my Innkeeper upon landing in my first whaling port; tombstones staring at me in the whalemen's chapel; and here a gallows!

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I am only afraid your honour will forget such a poor man as an innkeeper; but, if your ladyship should not, I hope you will remember what reward I refused--refused!

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The tinker laid a heavy hand upon the innkeeper's fat shoulder, and tried to look impressive.

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He, seeing this grotesque figure clad in armour that did not match any more than his saddle, bridle, lance, buckler, or corselet, was not at all indisposed to join the damsels in their manifestations of amusement; but, in truth, standing in awe of such a complicated armament, he thought it best to speak him fairly, so he said, "Senor Caballero, if your worship wants lodging, bating the bed (for there is not one in the inn) there is plenty of everything else here." Don Quixote, observing the respectful bearing of the Alcaide of the fortress (for so innkeeper and inn seemed in his eyes), made answer, "Sir Castellan, for me anything will suffice, for

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The authorities had terrified me, and you know that an innkeeper must keep on good terms with the authorities."

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