hotel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A building where travellers pay to stay overnight and are given meals and other services.

   We stayed in a small hotel near the beach.

2. 2
   noun

   A large, grand private house, especially in France.

   The aristocrat owned an elegant hotel in central Paris.

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Simplified etymology

Hotel was adopted from French hôtel in the mid-17th century. During its first century in English, it occurred only in French phrases and referred to the large town mansions of French aristocrats; from the mid-18th century, the modern sense of a place providing accommodation and meals for paying guests prevailed. The French word was originally spelled hostel and ultimately derives from Latin hospis, meaning “host” or “guest.”

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis Latin hospitālis Old French ostel Middle French hostel French hôtelbor. English hotel 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.

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