innとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ĭn, IPA: /ɪn/
• 韻: -ɪn
• Homophone: in

名詞

inn (plural inns)

1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lodging place

   • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Adventure of My Uncle”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 21:

     [H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46–47:

     One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

2. A tavern.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pub

3. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.

   the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns

4. (British, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.

   Leicester Inn

5. (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso:

     But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33, page 12:

     Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.

派生語

動詞

inn (third-person singular simple present inns, present participle inning, simple past and past participle inned)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.
   • 1714 March 16 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Friday, March 5. [1714.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:

     But where do you intend to inn to-night?

   • circa 1570, Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1554/2:

     We inned at the signe of the Swan.

   • 1606, Sir G. Goosecappe I, iii, in Bullen O. Pl. III:

     I never innd in the Towne but once.

   • 1726, Brice's Weekly Journal, 18 February, 3:

     John Welch, Cornish Carrier, who formerly Inn'd at the Mermaid in Exon, is now removed to the Bear-Inn.

   • 1885, M. J. Colquhoun, Primes in Indis, I, xiv, 217:

     I inned at the best house, the Star and Garter.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To lodge or house (someone or something).
   • 2018 [1607], Thomas Middleton, Michaelmas term and a trick to catch the old one, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 27:

     I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone.

   • 1710, New Map Trav. High Church Apostle, 7, quoted in 1901, James Augustus Henry Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. H (1901), page 309:

     These Inn'd themselves all Night in Knights-bridge Fields.

参考

アナグラム

• NIN, NNI, Nin, nin

語源 1

From Proto-Germanic *inn.

副詞

inn

1. in (with allative direction)
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Festival of St. Peter the Apostle"

     Petrus cnocode forþ oþ þæt hīe hine inn lēton.

     Peter kept knocking until they let him in.

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 25:35

     Iċ wæs cuma and ġē mē inn laðodon.

     I was a stranger and you invited me in.

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 7:13

     Gangaþ inn þurh þæt nearwe ġeat.

     Go in through the narrow gate.

2. inside (with allative direction)

   Hit ongann riġnan, þȳ iċ ēode inn.

   It started raining, so I went inside.

反意語

• ūt

関連する語

• inne

語源 2

Probably from inne (“in, inside”).

名詞

inn n

1. inn

関連する語

• innian