Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hostel

Hostel , noun

[Old English hostel, ostel, Old French hostel, ostel, Late Latin hospitale, hospitalis, from Latin hospitalis. See Hospital, and compare Hotel.]

1.
An inn. [Archaic] — Poe
So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. — Tennyson
2.
A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obsolete] — Holinshed