hotel

A1 Topic:Shopping & Services

US /ˈhoʊ.tɛl/ UK /həʊˈtɛl/ See IPA manual

Freq #780

Meanings

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

noun
A large, grand private house, especially in France.

The aristocrat owned an elegant hotel in central Paris.

Thesaurus

Word family

Forms hotels

Derived forms antihotelapartelleaparthotelapartotelautohotelboatelbotelcondo-hotelcondotelecohotelecotelfloatel

Related forms hostel innmotel

Etymology

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.

hostel Middle English ostel Old French hospitālis Latin

View etymology graph ->

External links

# hotel

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈhoʊ.tɛl/
**IPA (UK):** /həʊˈtɛl/
**Frequency rank:** 780

## Meanings
1. A building where travellers pay to stay overnight and are given meals and other services.
2. A large, grand private house, especially in France.

## Examples
- We stayed in a small hotel near the beach.
- The aristocrat owned an elegant hotel in central Paris.

## Derived Forms
- antihotel
- apartelle
- aparthotel
- apartotel
- autohotel
- boatel
- botel
- condo-hotel
- condotel
- ecohotel
- ecotel
- floatel

## Related Forms
- hostel
- inn
- motel

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hostel
- Root: ostel
- Root: hospitālis

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Hotel is 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. The historical chain runs through Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis, Latin hospitālis, Old French ostel, Middle French hostel, French hôte, and English hotel. In current use, the main senses are “A building where travellers pay to stay overnight and are given meals and other services” and “A large, grand private house, especially in France”.

## Topics
- Shopping & Services
- Travel

markdown

hotel

Meanings

Thesaurus

Common collocations

Etymology

Topics

External links

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

Send feedback