AUBERGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auberge mean? 

• AUBERGE (noun)
  The noun AUBERGE has 1 sense:

1. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

  Familiarity information: AUBERGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUBERGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

auberge; hostel; hostelry; inn; lodge

Hypernyms ("auberge" is a kind of...):

hotel (a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "auberge"):

caravan inn; caravansary; caravanserai; khan (an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans)

imaret (a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey)

post house; posthouse (an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders)

roadhouse (an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling)

 Context examples 

Can a Frenchman upon French land not sit down in a French auberge without having his ears pained by the clack of their hideous talk?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Good master Pelligny, said the landlord, these gentlemen have not gone very fast, and I have a horse in the stable at your disposal, for I would rather have such bloody doings as you threaten outside the four walls of mine auberge.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the sainted Ives! cried Du Guesclin at last, it is time that we spoke of what we are to do this night, for I cannot think that in this wayside auberge there are fit quarters for an honorable company.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'I have paid the Englishman's debt, Gourval!' quoth he, and so rode away, laughing so that he could scarce sit his horse, leaving mine host still nailed to his door. Such is the story of the hole which you have marked, and of the smudge upon the wood. I have heard that from that time English archers have been better treated in the auberge of Cardillac. But what have we here by the wayside?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)