inn

«inn» in Mova's school dictionary: a small hotel or pub, often in the countryside or an old… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an inn, inns)

meaning for a pupil

1) An inn is a small hotel or pub, often in the countryside or an old building, where travellers can eat, drink and stay the night. tree →

2) (Bible) In the Christmas story, there was no room for Mary and Joseph at the inn in Bethlehem, so Jesus was born where animals were kept. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and history lessons, travellers on horseback stopped at inns; in nativity plays a child plays the innkeeper. In everyday life many British pubs are called «The Something Inn». Phrases: «stay at an inn», «there was no room at the inn», «innkeeper», «roadside inn».

examples

• We had lunch at an old inn in the village. tree →
• There was no room at the inn for Mary and Joseph. tree →
• In the nativity play, I was the innkeeper. tree →
• The tired travellers stopped at an inn for the night. tree →
• The Good Samaritan took the hurt man to an inn. tree →
• The Red Lion Inn has a big fireplace. tree →
• The inn had rooms upstairs and a bar below. tree →
• There was an inn by the roadside. tree →

note

Countable: inns. Homophone: «in» (preposition) sounds the same. Old-fashioned word; today «hotel», «pub» or «B&B» are common.

In the corpora

• Hungry, he walks into the Red Lion inn in a little town and orders the best lunch they have.
• Caravanserais, inns spaced about a day's journey apart, gave caravans safe places to rest.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «inn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.