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hotel

noun
/həʊˈtɛl/UK/ˈhoʊ.tɛl//hoːˈtɛl/CA

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.

  1. derived from hospitālis
  2. derived from hospitālis
  3. derived from ostel
  4. derived from hostel
  5. borrowed from hôtel

Definitions

  1. A large town house or mansion

    A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France.

    • [T]he cream-coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the private hotels of the Parisian aristocracy) was there[.]

  2. An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests

    An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.

    • 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.

  3. A public house or pub.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A restaurant

      A restaurant; any dining establishment.

    2. Alternative letter-case form of Hotel from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

    3. The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.

    4. The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.

The neighborhood

Derived

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 · +33 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hotel. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01hotel02guests03guest04house05accommodations06accommodation07hotels

A definitional loop anchored at hotel. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at hotel

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA