Hos″tel (?), n. [OE. hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel, LL. hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. hospitalis. See Hospital, and cf. Hotel.] 1. An inn. Poe.
So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. Tennyson.
2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. Holinshed.