# hotel
## Translingual
### Noun

hotel
* Alternative letter-case form of Hotel of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

## English
### Alternative forms

* hôtel (archaic)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostel and hospital.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /(h)əʊˈtɛl/, /ˈ(h)əʊtl̩/
* (US) enPR: hō-tĕlʹ, IPA: /hoʊˈtɛl/
* (Southern US) IPA: /ˈhoʊtɛl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (Indic) IPA: /ˈ(h)oːʈal/, /(h)oˑˈʈel/
* (Canada) IPA: /hoːˈtɛl/
* Rhymes: -ɛl, -əl
* Hyphenation: ho‧tel

### Noun

hotel (plural hotels)
* (now chiefly historical) A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France. [from 17th c.]
** 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 2, in The Age of Innocence, New York: D. Appleton and Company:[T]he cream-coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the private hotels of the Parisian aristocracy) was there[.]
* An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. [from 17th c.]
** 1868, "A Clergyman" (John Morison), Australia in 1866, page 165,
    When gold-digging commenced in California, the writer was staying at an hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, where a Yankee trader was also staying. Seated at the dining-table, the latter was discoursing of the business he was doing […] .
** 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
* (South Asia) A restaurant; any dining establishment.
* (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Hotel from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
* The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.
* The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.
* (Australia, western Canada) A pub.

#### Usage notes

* The UK pronunciation omitting the initial /h/ is in imitation of the French hôtel and is now considered old-fashioned (unless of course the speaker always drops /h/).

#### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:lodging place

#### Derived terms

* antihotel
* apartelle
* aparthotel
* apartment hotel
* apartotel
* autohotel
* bee hotel
* boatel, botel
* boutique hotel
* bug hotel
* capsule hotel
* carrier hotel
* casino hotel
* cat hotel
* condo hotel, condo-hotel
* condotel
* crossbar hotel
* crowbar hotel
* eco hotel, ecohotel
* ecotel
* floatel, flotel
* ghost hotel
* graybar hotel
* green hotel
* grippy sock hotel
* HoReCa
* hotel-apartment
* hoteldom
* hotelish
* hotelize
* hotelkeeper
* hotelkeeping
* hotelless
* hotellike
* hotelling
* hotel load
* hotelman
* hotel pan
* hotel room
* hotelside
* hotelward, hotelwards
* hotelware
* hotelwide
* hydro hotel
* infinite hotel paradox
* insect hotel
* love hotel
* medi-hotel
* megahotel
* military hotel
* motel
* motor hotel
* multihotel
* nonhotel
* no-tell hotel
* officetel
* pet hotel
* pod hotel
* public hotel
* superhotel
* welfare hotel
* wellness hotel
* where can I find a hotel
* workingman's hotel
* workingmen's hotel

#### Related terms

* hostel

#### Descendants

* → Amharic: ሆቴል (hotel)
* → Assamese: হোটেল (hütel)
* → Bengali: হোটেল (hōṭel)
* → Burmese: ဟိုတယ် (huitai)
* → Hindi: होटल (hoṭal)
* → Japanese: ホテル (hoteru)
* → Khmer: ហោតិល (haotəl)
* → Korean: 호텔 (hotel)
* → Malay: hotel
* → Maori: hōtēra
* → Nepali: होटल (hoṭal)
* → Oromo: hoteela
* → Persian: هوتَل (hôtal) (Dari)
* → Swahili: hoteli
* → Tamil: ஓட்டல் (ōṭṭal)
* → Thai: โฮเต็ล (hoo-dtel)
* → Tigrinya: ሆቴል (hotel)
* → Tok Pisin: hotel
* → Ukrainian: готе́ль (hotélʹ)
* → Urdu: ہوٹل (hoṭal)

#### Translations
### See also

* inn
* motel

### Anagrams

* Holte, Thole, helot, hetol, lothe, thole

## Albanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɔtɛl/

### Noun

hotel m (plural hotele, definite hoteli, definite plural hotelet)
* hotel

#### Declension
## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel.

### Noun

hotel m (plural hoteles)
* hotel

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [uˈtɛl]
* IPA: (Balearic) [oˈtəl]
* IPA: (Valencia) [oˈtel]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hotel m (plural hotels)
* hotel

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦotɛl]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hotel m inan
* hotel

#### Derived terms

* hotýlek

### Further reading

* “hotel”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “hotel”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “hotel”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

From French hôtel.

### Noun

hotel n (singular definite hotellet, plural indefinite hoteller)
* hotel

### Further reading

* “hotel” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* hôtel (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Latin hospitālis. Doublet of hospitaal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɦoːˈtɛl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ho‧tel
* Rhymes: -ɛl

### Noun

hotel n (plural hotels, diminutive hotelletje n)
* hotel

#### Derived terms

* badhotel
* bijenhotel
* berghotel
* familiehotel
* hotelbed
* hotelbediende
* hoteleigenaar
* hotelgast
* hotelhouder
* hotelier
* hotelkamer
* hotelketen
* hotelmanager
* hotelschool
* strandhotel

#### Related terms

* botel
* motel

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: hotel
* → Aukan: oteli
* → Indonesian: hotel
* → West Frisian: hotel

### Anagrams

* holte

## Galician
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔˈtɛl/ [ɔˈt̪ɛɫ]
* Rhymes: -ɛl
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ho‧tel

### Noun

hotel m (plural hoteis)
* hotel
    Hotel de cinco estrelas..Five-star hotel..

### Further reading

* “hotel”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Hotel, from French hôtel, from Old French hostel, from Latin hospitāle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhotɛl]
* Hyphenation: ho‧tel
* Rhymes: -ɛl

### Noun

hotel (plural hotelek)
* hotel
    Synonyms: szálloda, szálló

#### Declension

Less commonly:

#### Derived terms

* hotelcímke
* hotelportás
* hotelszámla
* hotelszoba
* rovarhotel

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
* ↑ Hotelok, hotelek (e-nyelv.hu)

### Further reading

* hotel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch hotel, from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel; inherited from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable; pertaining to a host or guest”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhotɛl]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ho‧tèl

### Noun

hotèl (plural hotel-hotel)
* hotel, an establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* perhotelan [causative passive + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peR- + -an)
* hotel apartemen
* hotel apung
* hotel bandar
* hotel bandara
* hotel berbintang
* hotel bisnis
* hotel bujet
* hotel butik
* hotel kapsul
* hotel kasino
* hotel keluarga
* hotel kota
* hotel mandiri
* hotel melati
* hotel pantai
* hotel pilgrim
* hotel pribadi
* hotel prodeo
* hotel residensial
* hotel resor
* hotel semiresidensial
* hotel tira
* hotel transit

#### Related terms

* hostel

### Further reading

* “hotel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel (“hostel”, “inn”), from Old French ostel (“shelter”), from Latin hospitālis (“pertaining to hospitality”). Doublet of ospedale and ospitale.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oˈtɛl/
* Rhymes: -ɛl
* Hyphenation: ho‧tèl

### Noun

hotel m (invariable)
* hotel(s)
* the letter H in the Italian spelling alphabet

#### Synonyms

* albergo

#### Related terms

* ostello

#### Descendants

* → Cimbrian: hotèl

## Malay
### Etymology

From English hotel.

### Noun

hotel (plural hotel-hotel, informal 1st possessive hotelku, 2nd possessive hotelmu, 3rd possessive hotelnya)
* hotel (establishment that provides accommodation for paying guests)

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel. Doublet of hostel and szpital.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxɔ.tɛl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔtɛl
* Syllabification: ho‧tel

### Noun

hotel m inan (diminutive hotelik)
* hotel

#### Derived terms

* hotelowy

#### Related terms

* hotelarski
* hotelarka
* hotelarstwo
* hotelarz
* hoteling

### Further reading

* hotel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* hotel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle. Doublet of hospital and hospedal.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /oˈtɛw/ [oˈtɛʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈtɛl/ [ɔˈtɛɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈtɛl/ [ɔˈtɛɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈtɛ.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
* Hyphenation: ho‧tel

### Noun

hotel m (plural hotéis)
* hotel

### References

* ↑ “hotel”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitale. Doublet of spital.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hoˈtel/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hotel n (plural hotele)
* hotel

#### Related terms

* hotelier

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xǒtel/
* Hyphenation: ho‧tel

### Noun

hòtel m (Cyrillic spelling хо̀тел)
* hotel

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦɔtel]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hotel m inan (genitive singular hotela, nominative plural hotely, genitive plural hotelov, declension pattern of stroj)
* hotel

#### Declension
### References

* “hotel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French hôtel.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xɔtɛ̀ːl/

#### Noun

hotél m anim
* hotel

##### Inflection
#### Further reading

* “hotel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

hóteł
* masculine singular l-participle of hoteti

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oˈtel/ [oˈt̪el]
* Rhymes: -el
* Syllabification: ho‧tel

### Noun

hotel m (plural hoteles)
* hotel

#### Derived terms

* hotelero

### See also

* albergue m
* casa de huéspedes f
* hospedaje m
* hostal m
* pensión m
* posada f

### Further reading

* “hotel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hotel.

### Noun

hotel
* hotel

## Vilamovian
### Etymology

From French hôtel.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hotel ?
* hotel