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.

Common collocations

• book a hotel Verb + noun
• budget hotel Adjective + noun
• grand hotel Adjective + noun
• luxury hotel Adjective + noun
• run a hotel Verb + noun

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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