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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Inn and Hotel

Hello! Could you clear up the difference between "an inn" and "a hotel"?
  

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You will find that the two facilities differ from region to region. In general, I consider inns to be smaller than hotels, and often in the countryside rather than in a larger city. S.

— Philip

  • You will find that the two facilities differ from region to region.
  • In general, I consider inns to be smaller than hotels, and often in the countryside rather than in a larger city.
  • S.
  • there is an entire nation-wide chain of large hotels named Holiday Inn.
  • The name may have been chosen to give the consumer a sense of intimacy.
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You will find that the two facilities differ from region to region. In general, I consider inns to be smaller than hotels, and often in the countryside rather than in a larger city. However, in the U.S. there is an entire nation-wide chain of large hotels named Holiday Inn. The name may have been chosen to give the consumer a sense of intimacy.
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"Inn" can also sound more literary and poetic than "hotel," which can mean anything from a luxury establishment to a fleabag. For example: "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness."
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The difference is the word origin:

Inn is from Old English inn "lodging, dwelling, house," probably from inne (adv.) "inside, within".
Meaning "public house with lodging" is perhaps by c. 1200, certainly by c. 1400.

Hotel is from the 1640s, "public official residence; large private residence," from the French hôtel "a mansion, palace, large house," from Old Fre
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In the UK, an "inn" is usually thought of as this kind of place:

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