hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hōtĕl′
enpr: hō′tĕl
enpr: hō′təl
ipa: /həʊˈtɛl/
ipa: /əʊˈtɛl/
ipa: /hoʊˈtɛl/
ipa: /ˈhoʊtɛl/
ipa: /hoːˈtɛl/
note: Indic
ipa: /(h)ɵˈʈɛl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈ(h)oʈəl/
other: /h/
other: /h/
Forms: form: hotels
form: hôtel
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.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he cream-coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the private hotels of the Parisian aristocracy) was there[.]
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 2, in The Age of Innocence, New York: D. Appleton and Company:
glosses: A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France.
examples: text: 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 […] .
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2020, page 28:
text: Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.
ref: 2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN:
glosses: An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.
glosses: A restaurant; any dining establishment.
qualifier: international standards
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Hotel from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
glosses: The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.
glosses: The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.
glosses: A pub.
Derived terms: antihotel
apartelle
aparthotel
apartment hotel
apartotel
asylum hotel
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
Patel hotel
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
inn
motel