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Hotel

Definition: Hotel

Hotel

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hotel" was first used: 1644. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Hotel

DomainDefinition

Personal Care & Hotels

FG. Source: European Union. (references)

19th Century Satire

A place where a guest often gives up good dollars for poor quarters. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Dream Interpretation

To dream of living in a hotel, denotes ease and profit.
To visit women in a hotel, your life will be rather on a dissolute order.
To dream of seeing a fine hotel, indicates wealth and travel.
If you dream that you are the proprietor of a hotel, you will earn all the fortune you will ever possess.
To work in a hotel, you could find a more remunerative employment than what you have.
To dream of hunting a hotel, you will be baffled in your search for wealth and happiness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Hotel

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)


A small hotel in Mureck, Styria, Austria which has preserved its 1960s exterior and interior

A hotel is an establishment that provides lodging on a short-term basis. Hotels often provide a number of ancillary services for their clients such as a restaurant, a swimming pool, child-minding services, etc, although these vary vastly from location to location. Some hotels have conference services and encourage groups to hold conventions and meetings at their location.

Hotels differ from motels in that most motels have drive-up, exterior entrances to the rooms, while hotels tend to have halls with interior entrances to the rooms.

The cost and quality of hotels are usually relatively indicative of the range and type of services available. Due to the enormous increase in tourism worldwide, during the last decades of the 20th century common standards, especially those of smaller establishments, have improved considerably. "Basic" accommodation consisting of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand only have largely been replaced by rooms with en-suite bathrooms. Other features many travellers do not want to do without today are a TV, a telephone, an alarm clock, a small refrigerator (usually referred to as "mini-bar") containing snacks and drinks (to be paid for on departure), and tea and coffee making facilities (cups, spoons, an electric kettle and sachets containing instant coffee, tea bags, sugar, and creamer).


The lobby of the Hotel Reineldis

Apart from family-run or individual hotels, there are also national and worldwide hotel chains. These include:

Hotels in fiction

Hotels have often been chosen by authors as the setting of their literary works, e.g. The Hotel New Hampshire. It is especially true of crime fiction (Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun, A Caribbean Mystery, At Bertram's Hotel; Cyril Hare's Suicide Excepted) and farces. Hotels also feature prominently in films (Grand Hotel, Room Service, Plaza Suite), television series, and songs, e.g. Hotel California.

See also:


The dining room and bar

Hotel is also the letter H in the NATO phonetic alphabet

Hotel was also the name of an American television program that aired on ABC from 1983 until 1988.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hotel."

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Synonyms within Context: Hotel

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple.

Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse.

Inhabitant

Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter.

Petitioner

Beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger; hotel runner, runner, steerer, tout, touter.

Remedy

Hotel des Invalides; sanatorium, spa, pump room, well; hospice; Red Cross.

Ship

Man of war; (combatant); transport, tender, storeship; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hotel

English words defined with "hotel": accommodate, adjoining room, admit, American plan, appointmentbell captain, Bermuda plan, bill, book, Boots, bug, buggedcasino-hotel, charge, check out, checkout, checkout time, cocktail lounge, concierge, connecting room, continental plan, courtdesk clerkechoing, European planfittinggrudgingly, guesthold, hostel, hostelry, hotel bill, hotel clerk, hotel desk clerk, hotel detective, hotel plan, hotel room, hotel-casino, house detective, house dickincommodious, inn, interceptLodge, loungemarquee, marquise, meal plan, modified American plan, motel, motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodgeno-showoffer, off-season, overdosePastry cookreception desk, reception room, reechoing, resort hotel, Ritz, room clerk, room rate, roomsScotch Tape, Sellotape, service charge, set down, ski lodge, smoking room, sneakily, sommelier, spa, Steam table, suite, surreptitiouslytap, tourist courtwaiting area, waiting room, wine steward, wine waiter, wiretap. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hotel": arriving passenger amenities, artist consultant, ARTIST'S MANAGER, artist's representativeBAGGAGE PORTER, HEADcarpet cleaner, CHECKROOM CHIEF, CHEF DE FROID, chief steward/stewardess, clerk, travel reservations, coffee-urn attendant, COOK, BREAKFAST, CREDIT-CARD CLERKdelivery-room clerk, dietary assistant, director, salesexecutive steward/stewardessFOOD CHECKER, FOOD-AND-BEVERAGE CHECKERhotie, HOUSE OFFICER, house steward/stewardessINFORMATION CLERKKITCHEN SUPERVISORlavatory attendant, Legionnaires'disease, linen checker, linen clerk, linen-exchange attendant, LINEN-ROOM ATTENDANT, linen-room housepersonMacTurk, maintenance engineer, MANAGER, BOARDING HOUSE, manager, business promotion, MANAGER, FRONT OFFICE, manager, general, manager, guest house, MANAGER, HOTEL OR MOTEL, MANAGER, HOTEL RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, manager, kitchen, manager, motor hotel, manager, motor inn, MANAGER, PROMOTION, MANAGER, RESERVATIONS, manager, resident, manager, salesNEWMAN'S HOTEL, NIGHT AUDITOR, night-clerk auditorpackage clerk, PANTRY GOODS MAKER, PARLOR CHAPERONE, personal agent, personal manager, PORTER, BAGGAGE, porter, luggage, Precieuses RidiculesRAW SHELLFISH PREPARER, receiving-room clerk, Register, RESERVATION CLERK, RESIDENTIAL BUILDING, REST ROOM ATTENDANT, ROOM-SERVICE CLERK, Ropes, RUG CLEANER, HAND, rug renovator, rug scrubber, rug shampooer, rug washerSALES REPRESENTATIVE, HOTEL SERVICES, security officer, service-car operator, SHERIFF'S HOTEL, special officer, special place, Stay, STEWARD/STEWARDESS, Stop, SUMMER, superintendent, building, SUPERVISOR, CASHIERS, SUPERVISOR, DRY CLEANING, SUPERVISOR, HOUSECLEANERtoilet attendant, touring counselor, TOURIST-INFORMATION ASSISTANT, travel clerk, travel counselor, TRAVEL COUNSELOR, AUTOMOBILE CLUB, traveling clerkuniform attendantvalet serviceWAITER/WAITRESS, BAR, waiter/waitress, cocktail lounge, washroom attendant. (references)
Etymologies containing "hotel": hostel. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Hotel" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (hotel), Albanian (hostel, hotel, inn), Asturian (hotel), Cebuano (hotel), Croatian (hotel), Czech (hotel), Danish (hotel), Dutch (hotel), Faeroese (hotel), Flemish (hotel), French (hotel), Frisian (hotel), Galician (hotel), German (hotel), Hawaiian (hotel), Hungarian (hotel), Indonesian (hotel), Italian (Hotel), Luxembourgish (hotel), Macedonian (hotel), Malay (hotel), Polish (hotel), Portuguese (hotel, inn), Portuguese Brazilian (hotel), Romanian (hotel, road house), Romansch (hotel), Serbo-Croatian (hotel), Slovene (hotel), Spanish (guesthouse, hotel, palace), Tagalog (hotel).

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Modern Usage: Hotel

DomainUsage

Screenplays

And most important, how in God's green earth it got into Congressman Albert's hotel room (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi)

In the hotel, you said it was a bomb (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

Tyler was now involved in a class action lawsuit against the Pressman Hotel over the urine content of their soup (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

How can I make a reservation for a hotel room (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; writing credit: John Hughes)

Let me get this straight: you flew all the way down to Miami and kidnapped me from my hotel room in the middle of the night just because you couldn't get an erection (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan)

Lyrics

Plenty of room at the Hotel California (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES)

At Heartbreak Hotel. (Heartbreak Hotel; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Take me to the hotel, Baggage gone, oh, well (TRAVELIN' BAND; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Holed up in some hotel (Leader Of The Band; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg)

We ended up at the Grand Hotel (Smoke on the Water; performing artist: Deep Purple)

Movie/TV Titles

Das Blaue Hotel (1973)

Hallo - Hotel Sacher... Portier! (1973)

Sexual Meditation: Hotel (1972)

Hotel Paradiso (1972)

Goodbye Belgrove Hotel (1970)

Song Titles

Heartbreak Hotel (performing artist: Stan Freberg)

Heartbreak Hotel (performing artist: Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans & Kelly Price)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hotel

DomainTitle

References

  • Acesite (Philippines) Hotel Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Danubius Hotel and Spa RT: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Asia Hotel Public Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Hotel and Restaurant Equipment in Chile: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

  • Hotel Grand Central Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Hotel Lachapelle: Photographs (reference)

  • Hotel of the Saints: Stories (reference)

  • Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence (reference)

  • The Haunted Hotel (A to Z Mysteries (Paper)) (reference)

  • Zagatsurvey 2003 Top U.S. Hotel, Resorts & Spas (Zagatsurvey: Top U.S. Hotels, Resorts & Spas, 2003) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Hotel

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The Nahant Hotel at Long Beach. This hotel was constructed of stone and had over one hundred rooms. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A southwestern view of East Boston as seen from Lewis's Wharf, East Boston ferryway. East Boston was formerly known as Noddle's Island. The Maverick Hotel, named for Samuel Maverick a 17th Century colonist, is the large building in the center. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Project Cloudline Hotel. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

LA CHALUPA, built in 1972, now operates as an undersea hotel off Key Largo, FL. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

In the Hotel Humboldt at Orotava, Tenerife. Left to right: Papanicolau; L. Tinayre; A. Fuhrmeister; and J. Richard. Plate IV, print 23. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Enjoying a hotel on Majuro. Credit: Small World.

Beach front hotel on Majuro. Credit: Small World.

View showing limestone topography - Continental hotel in far right center. Credit: Small World.

Chekist Village (gorodok chekistov) tower (1930s Constructivist architecture) (now Hotel Iset), Ekaterinburg, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Former Grand Hotel (1901-03), Irkutsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Hotel
 

"Hotel" by Aureliano Del Vasto
Commentary: "A simil neon advertise."
"Nevada hotel" by jens karlsson
Commentary: "Shot in daylight in the city of Nevada, processed in the lab to get this old look."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Hotel".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Front desk bell at a hotel ringing twice.Hotel bell rings once.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Hotel

AuthorQuotation

Josh Billings

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Hotel

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

This done, he left the hotel and began to walk in the city

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

One day he had stood beside her looking into the hotel grounds

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hotel

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

They are used to make bookings, such as hotel rooms, over the Internet. (references)

The most frequent hotel guests are French, Belgian, British, and West Africans. (references)

Hotel rooms are almost always supplied with boiled water, which is safe to drink. (references)

Children

Ethiopia

There have been many press reports of the large-scale employment of children, especially underage girls, as hotel workers, barmaids, and prostitutes in resort towns and rural truck stops. (references)

Civil Liberties

Korea

CNN television broadcasts are available in a Pyongyang hotel frequented by foreigners. (references)

Mauritania

When they attempted to hold the meeting at the Hotel Chinguetti, police used excessive force to disperse them. (references)

Economic History

Nicaragua

LEGENDS HOTEL & HARD ROCK CAFE, U.S. capital. (references)

Nicaragua

HOTEL MONTELIMAR, owned by the Spanish Barcelo Group. (references)

Nicaragua

HOTEL INTERCONTINENTAL MANAGUA, owned by Taiwanese investors. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

The owner of the hotel allegedly had fallen out with the then-ruling party prior to the demolition. (references)

Cameroon

In July 2000, Police Commissioner Theophile Tocko arrested Magloire Evouta, a businessman, at a Yaounde hotel. (references)

Guatemala

The assailants threatened her, tied her up, and left her unconscious for several hours at the bottom of a stairwell in the hotel. (references)

Political Economy

Korea

Cable News Network (CNN) television is available in one Pyongyang hotel frequented by foreigners. (references)

HONDURAS

Special government authorization must be obtained to invest in the tourism, hotel, insurance and banking service sectors. (references)

JORDAN

Maximum working hours are 48 per week, with the exception of hotel, bar, restaurant, and movie theater employees, who may work up to 54 hours. (references)

Trade

Brazil

Further, OPIC is financing $61 million for a Hyatt Hotel in São Paulo. (references)

Uruguay

Capital goods for the industrial, hotel and forestry sectors are presently exempt from tariffs. (references)

Lebanon

To date, OPIC provided coverage to Citibank and Beirut Marriott Hotel, and signed an $8 million loan agreement for a planned Courtyard Marriott Hotel. (references)

Travel

Argentina

Hotel rates are particularly dear. (references)

Mexico

Leave these in a hotel safe, not in your room. (references)

Armenia

Hotel Bass Restaurant, 3 Aigedzor St., Yerevan. (references)

Women

Saudi Arabia

In 1997 the Government authorized women to work in a limited capacity in the hotel industry. (references)

Bahrain

Although prostitution is illegal, some foreign women, including some who work as hotel and restaurant staff, engage in prostitution. (references)

Dominican Republic

NGO's have ongoing HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease prevention programs for male and female prostitutes, hotel and industrial zone workers, and other high-risk groups. (references)

Worker Rights

Jordan

Hotel, restaurant, and cinema employees may work up to 54 hours per week. (references)

Fiji

The striking hotel workers were given a pay raise, but this raise was regarded as a gesture by the management. (references)

United Arab Emirates

In May three Central European women claimed that they were recruited to work in the country in the hotel business. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Hotel

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

Hathaway kept everything close to the vest because if she let it all go she'd be trying to talk Miss Ellie into sharing a hotel room in Palm Springs for the Dinah Shore Golf Classic and they'd have to cancel the show.

Mariane Pearl

Well, that's what I was doing. And then we went back to a hotel and put the TV on and saw like in the middle age there and we saw the first just collapse like in front of us. It was pretty real. That's how we found out.

Marla Hanson

I became so depressed that I sold everything that I owned. I moved into the Chelsea Hotel, where I literally just wanted to die. I mean, I didn't want to live. I don't know if I wanted to kill myself as much as I didn't want to live.

Rush Limbaugh

You'll see the images of opulence in the Michelangelo Hotel and the wackos attending, juxtaposed with those of nearby people living in utter and total squalor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hotel

"Hotel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.30% of the time. "Hotel" is used about 10,813 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)84.3%9,1151,046
Noun (proper)15.7%1,6974,943
                    Total100.00%10,813N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Hotel

CountryNameCountryName
Australia

BT Hotel Group

Canada

Canadian Hotel Income Properties

France

Hotel Regina Paris SA

Germany

Krefelder Hotel AG Krefelder Hof

Greece

Ionian Hotel Enterprises

Hong Kong

Grand Hotel Holdings Ltd.

Hungary

Danubius Hotel and Spa RT

India

Hotel Leelaventure Limited

Indonesia

Hotel Sahid Jaya International P.T.

Ireland

Gresham Hotel Group P.L.C.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Hotel

Expressions using "hotel": apartment hotel bespeak a room at a hotel book accommodation at the hotel cheap hotel check out of a hotel family hotel Hotel and Restaurant Union hotel bill hotel business hotel chain hotel clerk hotel desk clerk hotel detective hotel guest hotel keeper hotel lobby hotel management hotel manager hotel occupancy hotel plan hotel porter hotel reservation hotel room hotel runner hotel servant hotel staff hotel thief in the hotel lobby leaving hotel without paying luxury hotel motor hotel mountain hotel proprietor of the hotel resort hotel seaside hotel stay at a hotel without paying stay in a hotel temperance hotel to hotel villainous hotel. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "hotel": hotel-based, hotel-building, hotel-casino, hotel-cum-clubhouse, hotel-cum-restaurant, Hotel-de-ville, Hotel-Dieu, hotel-guests, hotel-keeper, hotel-keepers, hotel-keeping, hotel-like, hotel-occupancy, hotel-owner, hotel-restaurant, hotel-room, hotel-schools, hotel-size, hotel-standard, hotel-style, hotel-type.

Ending with "hotel": casino-hotel, pub-turned-hotel, soundcheck-hotel-gig-hotel-travel-hotel, station-hotel, well-hotel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hotel

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hotel

128,768

beach hotel

4,126

las vegas hotel

20,793

italy hotel

4,087

discount hotel

9,998

best western hotel

4,022

marriott hotel

8,924

cancun hotel

3,840

cheap hotel

8,690

holiday inn hotel

3,757

paris hotel

7,071

niagara falls hotel

3,713

hilton hotel

7,059

san francisco hotel

3,695

new york city hotel

6,204

san diego hotel

3,655

wyoming hotel

5,849

orlando hotel

3,655

hotel paradise

5,755

brazil hotel

3,587

london hotel

5,699

yellowstone hotel

3,482

alaska hotel

5,452

los angeles hotel

3,459

hotel reservation

4,766

hotel medford or

3,452

sheraton hotel

4,723

rome hotel

3,426

california hotel

4,512

spain hotel

3,413

chicago hotel

4,508

disney hotel

3,329

myrtle beach hotel

4,487

boston hotel

3,137

new york hotel

4,447

washington dc hotel

3,037

new orleans hotel

4,424

miami hotel

2,967

radisson hotel

4,282

santa cruz hotel

2,934
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Hotel

Language Translations for "hotel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

hotel (hostel, inn). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فندق (caravanserai, hostel, inn, tavern), ‏خان (betray, double cross, false, inn, khan, play false, rat, renegade, sell out, split, squeal, two time), ‏الفندق, ‏اوتيل. (various references)

   

Asturian

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Basque

  

hotelerako (for the hotel), hotelean (in the hotel). (various references)

   

Bemba

  

inganda yaba lendo. (various references)

   

Breton

  

leti. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хотел (house). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

l'hotel (the hotel). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

hotel, balay-abutanan. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

旅館 , 旅馆. (various references)

   

Cornish

  

ostel. (various references)

   

Croatian

  

hotelu, hotel. (various references)

   

Czech

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Danish

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

hotelo. (various references)

   

Estonian

  

hotelli. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hotelli. (various references)

   

Flemish

  

hotel. (various references)

   

French

  

hôtel (hostel), Hotel. (various references)

   

French Canadian

  

l'hotel (the hotel). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Galician

  

hotel. (various references)

   

German

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξενοδοχείο (hostel). (various references)

   

Haitian Creole

  

lotèl. (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מלון (boarding house, lodging), בית מלון (hostelry). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szálloda, hotel. (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

hótelstarfsmaður (Hotel employee), hótelinu (THE HOTEL). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

tujuqmivik. (various references)

   

Irish

  

t-óstán, ostán, óstán. (various references)

   

Italian

  

albergo (house, inn). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(boat cabin, building, guesthouse, hall, house, inn, mansion, small castle), ホッパー車 (hobby, hobby craft, Hoffmann, homo, Homo economicus, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Homo ludens, Homo movens, Homo sapiens, homogenize, homophony, homosexual, Honolulu, hop, hopper car, hops, photo multiplier, pogo stick), 旅亭 (inn), 旅次 (inn), 客舎 (inn, lodging), 客商売 (servicebusiness). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ホテル , きゃくしゃ (inn, lodging, passenger car), きゃくしょうばい (servicebusiness), かくしゃ (all companies, each company, enlightened person, inn, lodging), かん (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), りょじ (inn), りょてい (inn, itinerary). (various references)

   

Kongo

  

nzo a banzenza. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

호텔. (various references)

   

Lombard

  

albergh. (various references)

   

Luxembourgish

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

hotel, motel. (various references)

   

Malay

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Manx

  

thie oast (boozer, dram shop, inn, licensed house, pub, public house, saloon, tavern), thie goaldee (guesthouse, private hotel). (various references)

   

Maori

  

hootera. (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

tsi yohswen'karènton. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

hotell. (various references)

   

Papago

  

koksikud (nightgown). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

hotèl. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otelhay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

hotel (inn). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Provencal

  

ostalariá. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

hotel (road house). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

hotel. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отель. (various references)

   

Samoan

  

faletalimalo. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

hotel, svratište (hangout, inn). (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

albergu. (various references)

   

Slovene

  

hotelu, hotel. (various references)

   

Somali

  

hoteelka. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hotel (guesthouse, palace). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

hoteli (restaurant). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hotell (hotels, pub). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

hotel, otél. (various references)

   

Tahitian

  

hotera. (various references)

   

Thai

  

โรงแรม (lodge). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

otel (inn). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

myhmanhana (guest room, receiving room). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

готель (hospice, hostel, hostelry, inn). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khách sạn. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

gwesty (inn). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

ilihhotela, ihhotela. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hotel

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Medieval Latin700-1500

hospitale. (various references)

Old French900-1400

hostel. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hotel

Derivations

Words beginning with "hotel": hoteldom, hoteldoms, hotelier, hoteliers, hotelman, hotelmen, hotels. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hotel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: botel, haote, Hately, hatle, hethel, Hetzel, hiatel, Hitel, Hitle, hitsel, Hktel, Hodel, hoel, Hoell, hoet, hoetel, homel, Homelux, hosel, hota, hotal, hote, Hotec, Hotek, hotely, Hoti, hotley, hotrec, hotte, Hotten, houte, Hutaple, Jobtel, Jotul, Khote, Kotelo, otel, Otelo, rotel, tohel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hotel"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "hotel" (pronounced hōte"l)
4-ō t e" lmotel.
3-t e" lcartel, clientele, foretell, Tel, tell, pastel, retell.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Hotel

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: helot, thole.

Words within the letters "e-h-l-o-t"

-1 letter: helo, hole, holt, loth, tole.

-2 letters: eth, het, hoe, hot, let, lot, ole, tel, the, tho, toe.

-3 letters: eh, el, et, he, ho, lo, oe, oh, to.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-l-o-t"
 

+1 letter: clothe, eolith, helots, hostel, hotels, howlet, loathe, tholed, tholes.

 

+2 letters: anethol, brothel, cholate, cholent, chortle, clothed, clothes, eoliths, ethanol, ethoxyl, helotry, holiest, holster, hooklet, hoplite, hostels, hostile, hostler, hotline, howlets, lithoed, loathed, loather, loathes, menthol, neolith, pothole, rathole, taphole, theelol, theolog, toehold, whortle.

 

+3 letters: aerolith, anethole, anethols, apholate, beclothe, blotched, blotches, bolthead, bolthole, brothels, catechol, chelator, chlorate, chlorite, cholates, cholents, chortled, chortler, chortles, clothier, eolithic, eschalot, ethanols, ethology, ethoxyls, fleshpot, halftone, heelpost, helicopt, heliport, helistop, helotage, helotism, holotype, holstein, holsters, holytide, honestly, hooklets, hoplites, hosteled, hosteler, hostelry, hostiles, hostlers, hoteldom, hotelier, hotelman, hotelmen, hotlines, isopleth, knothole, lekythoi, lekythos, loathers, lothsome, menthols, methanol, methoxyl, motherly, mothlike, neoliths, oothecal, pesthole, phenetol, plethora, porthole, posthole, potholed, potholes, potlache, ratholes, reclothe, regolith, rhyolite, selcouth, shoalest, tapholes, telethon, theelols, theologs, theology, thiazole, tholepin, thowless, throstle, throttle, toeholds, toolhead, toolshed, trochlea, unclothe, whortles, xenolith.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Usage Frequency
14. Names: Company Usage
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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