as in taverner
the owner or manager of an inn the innkeeper was a very genial, accommodating host

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Recent Examples of innkeeper Instead of a psychiatrist, Newhart played a Vermont innkeeper and TV talk show host. Kristen Lopez, IndieWire, 18 July 2024 The innkeeper got his mother to come over with a liter of gas, Vouras said. Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2024 In 1984, inspired by Fantasia Fair, a transgender gathering first held nine years earlier, a group of women innkeepers dreamed up Women’s Weekend (now Women’s Week), in an effort to attract more lesbian visitors and to expand the summer season into October. June Thomas, TIME, 31 May 2024 Meanwhile, your innkeepers have to heave your luggage up from the boat. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for innkeeper 

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“Innkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innkeeper. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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