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Definition: Innkeeper |
InnkeeperNoun1. The owner or manager of an inn. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "innkeeper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonym: InnkeeperSynonym: host (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inhabitant | Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Innkeeper |
| English words defined with "innkeeper": Boniface ♦ hostess ♦ victualer, victualler. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "innkeeper": liability of innkeeper ♦ RITZ, Running Footman. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "innkeeper": Cauponize. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I beg your pardon, Monsieur Innkeeper, what is your name |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Innkeeper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.95% of the time. "Innkeeper" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.95% | 94 | 33,845 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 95 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "innkeeper": liability of innkeeper. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "innkeeper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hanxhi (host), bujtinar (host, landlord). (various references) | |
Arabic | النزلي صاحب فندق, الخاني صاحب خان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдържател (host, proprietor), ханджия (hosteler, landlord, padrone, publican), кръчмар (bung, cantinier, publican, saloonkeeper). (various references) | |
Chinese | 管理旅社者. (various references) | |
Cornish | tavernor. (various references) | |
Czech | hostinský (landlord), hospodský (saloonkeeper, victualler). (various references) | |
Dutch | waard (beloved, dear, expensive, host, landlord, lovely, valuable, worth), logementhouder (host, landlord), herbergier (host, landlord). (various references) | |
Esperanto | gastejestro (host, landlord). (various references) | |
Farsi | صاحب مسافرخانه(innholder). (various references) | |
French | aubergiste. (various references) | |
German | Wirt (boss, host, landlord, master, publican), Gastwirt (barkeeper, landlord, proprietor, publican, restaurant manager, restaurant owner, restaurant proprietor, restaurateur). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פו "קאי (host), אושפיזכן (host), בעל אכס י" (host), בעל בית מלון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kocsmáros (barkeeper, host, padrone, publican, saloon-keeper, tapster). (various references) | |
Italian | ostessa (hostess), oste (host, publican), locandiere. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 亭主 (host, husband, landlord, master). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅくしゅ (host, landlord), やどぬし (host, landlord), ていしゅ (bow, host, husband, landlord, master). (various references) | |
Korean | 여인숙 주인. (various references) | |
Manx | oasteyr (hotelier, landlord, licensed victualler, publican), oasteyder (landlord, licensed victualler, publican), fer oast (landlord), ben oast (hostess, landlady). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | innkeeperay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hoteleiro, estalajadeiro (host, landlord), dono de pousada, administrador de pousada. (various references) | |
Romanian | hangiu (host, landlord, licensed victualler), cârciumar (publican). (various references) | |
Romansch | hotelier. (various references) | |
Russian | хозяин гостиницы (padrone), трактирщик (Boniface, cantinier, saloonkeeper, saloon-keeper, tavern keeper). (various references) | |
Scottish | òsdair. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krčmar (landlord, licensee, publican, saloonkeeper, sutler, victualler), kafedžija (barkeeper, padrone), gostioničar (restaurateur). (various references) | |
Spanish | ventero, tabernero (barkeeper, publican, saloonkeeper), posadero (host, landlord), mesonero (host, landlord), fondista. (various references) | |
Sranan | warti (host, landlord). (various references) | |
Swedish | värdshusvärd (host, landlord, publican), gästgivare. (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ควบคุม"ูแลโรงแรม. (various references) | |
Turkish | otelci (hotel keeper, hotelier), meyhaneci, hancı (host, publican). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | господар готелю (padrone). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chủ quán trọ (innholder). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caupo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "innkeeper": innkeepers. (additional references) | |
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"Innkeeper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inkeeper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "innkeeper" (pronounced i"nkē'per) |
| 4 | -k ē' p er | beekeeper, bookkeeper, crowkeeper, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, goalkeeper, groundskeeper, housekeeper, peacekeeper, scorekeeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper. |
| 3 | -ē' p er | minesweeper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-k-n-n-p-r" | |
-3 letters: keener, keeper, peerie, penner, pinene, pinken, pinker, pinner, repine. | |
-4 letters: eerie, inker, inner, kerne, kreep, pekin, penne, penni, piker, preen, prink, reink, renin, repin, ripen. | |
-5 letters: epee, erne, keen, keep, keir, kepi, kern, kier, kine, kirn, knee, neep, nene, nine, peek, peen, peer, pein, peke, peri, perk, pier, pike, pine, pink, pirn, pree. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-k-n-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: innkeepers. | |
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