HOTEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hotel mean? 

• HOTEL (noun)
  The noun HOTEL has 1 sense:

1. a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services

  Familiarity information: HOTEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOTEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hotel" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Meronyms (parts of "hotel"):

hotel room (a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hotel"):

fleabag (a run-down hotel)

auberge; hostel; hostelry; inn; lodge (a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers)

court; motor hotel; motor inn; motor lodge; tourist court (a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area)

resort hotel; spa (a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area)

Ritz (an ostentatiously elegant hotel)

ski lodge (a hotel at a ski resort)

holiday resort; resort; resort hotel (a hotel located in a resort area)

 Context examples 

The door swung shut, and he lighted a cigarette and turned back for his hotel.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The carriage ordered from the hotel was waiting.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Let us step round together to the hotel, and see if the porter can throw any fresh light upon the matter.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Blankets for a hotel” quoth one of the men who laughed and helped.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel bill, which interests me deeply.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You'll sleep here, while we stay, and I shall sleep at the hotel.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I took my things to a hotel in New Street, and then I made my way to the address which had been given me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was actually engaged to one of the head waiters in the hotel, and there was no difficulty in getting her address.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I called at your hotel, but you were out.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A large party in an hotel ensured a quick-changing, unsettled scene.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)