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 Michael Ball is superb as Javert, while Gavin Lee and Bonnie Langford are brilliantly wicked, and funny, as the Fagin-esque innkeeper Thénardier and his sarcastic wife. The Week Uk, theweek, 10 Oct. 2024 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 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 28 Nov. 2024.

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