innとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ĭn, IPA^(key): /ɪn/
• 韻: -ɪn
• Homophone: in

名詞

inn (複数形 inns)

1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
   • 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.
3. One of the colleges (societies または buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.

   the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns

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

   Leicester Inn

5. (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Tale of the Wẏf of Bathe”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 62, recto:

     For who so wolde senge a cattes skyn / Thanne wolde the cat wel dwellen in his In

     For if someone wants to singe a cat’s skin, the cat would rather stay in its house.

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Aegloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →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.

同意語

• (pub): See also Thesaurus:pub
• (lodging place): See also Thesaurus:lodging place

派生語

動詞

inn (三人称単数 現在形 inns, 現在分詞 inning, 過去形および過去分詞形 inned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To house; to lodge.
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Knẏghtes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 29, verso:

     […] Whan he hadde broght hem ǁ in to his citee / and Inned hem ǁ […]

     […] when he had brought them into his city and lodged them, […]

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To take lodging; to lodge.
   • 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?

参考

アナグラム

• NIN, NNI, Nin, nin

発音

• IPA^(key): /inn/, [in]

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