Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An establishment that provides lodging and usually meals and other services for travelers and other paying guests.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn; especially, an inn of some style and pretensions. See
inn . - noun A private city dwelling; particularly, a large town mansion.
- noun A public office or building: as, the Hôtel de Ville (city hall) in Paris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.
- noun In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to
houses . - noun The letter H in the
NATO phonetic alphabet . (This word is not translated, and is hotel in all languages.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For an entire year early in his consulting career, Mr. Stewart stashed his belongings with his family and moved from hotel to hotel on assignment.
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As his once splendid hotel was now occupied as a _hotel garni_, he hired a small chamber in the attic; it was but, as he said, changing his bedroom up two pair of stairs -- he was still in his own house.
The Crayon Papers Washington Irving 1821
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Underground at New York's Greenwich Hotel, lantern lights reflect off the overhead beams of a 250-year-old wood-and-bamboo farmhouse, reconstructed by Japanese craftsmen to surround the pool and lounge area off the Shibui Spa, whose name the hotel translates as "a subtle and unobtrusive approach."
You Lodgin' With Me? 2008
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Sitting nearly adjacent to the Staples Center, the hotel is a standout within the new LA LIVE entertainment and residential muti-plex and is hard to miss from the intersection of the I-110 and I-10 freeways.
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Because this hotel is a human institution to serve people, we hope that God will grant you peace and rest while you are under our roof.
Michael Conniff: God in Grand Junction Michael Conniff 2010
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"I think a hotel is an amazingly complimentary use."
Hotel Plan Questioned Joseph De Avila 2010
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Each of the “rooms” of the hotel is an individual cake!
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The breathing space lasted barely a breath: now another soulless behemoth of a hotel is being assembled, consuming the space, chewing out the sky.
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Because this hotel is a human institution to serve people, we hope that God will grant you peace and rest while you are under our roof.
Michael Conniff: God in Grand Junction Michael Conniff 2010
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Because this hotel is a human institution to serve people, we hope that God will grant you peace and rest while you are under our roof.
Michael Conniff: God in Grand Junction Michael Conniff 2010
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