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hotel

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Hotel of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

Pere Marquette 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.

hotel (plural hotels)

  1. (now chiefly historical) A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France. [from 17th c.]
    • 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 2, in The Age of Innocence, New York: D. Appleton and Company:
      [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; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. [from 17th c.]
    • 1868, "A Clergyman" (John Morison), Australia in 1866, page 165,
      When gold-digging commenced in California, the writer was staying at an hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, where a Yankee trader was also staying. Seated at the dining-table, the latter was discoursing of the business he was doing […] .
    • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 1 November 2020, page 28:
      Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
    • 2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN‎[2], archived from the original on 26 February 2025:
      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. (Australia, western Canada) A public house or pub.
  4. (South Asia) A restaurant; any dining establishment.
  5. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Hotel from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
  6. The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.
  7. The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.

establishment providing accommodation

Australian/NZ English: public house

Borrowed from French hôtel.

hotel m (plural hotele, definite hoteli, definite plural hotelet)

  1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

hotel m (plural hoteles)

  1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

hotel m (plural hotels)

  1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

hotel m inan

  1. hotel

From French hôtel.

hotel n (singular definite hotellet, plural indefinite hoteller)

  1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Latin hospitālis. Doublet of hospitaal.

hotel n (plural hotels, diminutive hotelletje n)

  1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle.

hotel m (plural hoteis)

  1. hotel
    Hotel de cinco estrelas..
    Five-star hotel..

Borrowed from German Hotel, from French hôtel, from Old French hostel, from Latin hospitāle. [1]

hotel (plural hotelek)

  1. hotel
    Synonyms: szálloda, szálló

Less commonly:[2]

  1. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN
  2. ^ Hotelok, hotelek (e-nyelv.hu)

From Dutch hotel, from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel; inherited from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable; pertaining to a host or guest”).

hotèl (plural **hotel-hotel)

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

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel (“hostel”, “inn”), from Old French ostel (“shelter”), from Latin hospitālis (“pertaining to hospitality”). Doublet of ospedale and ospitale.

hotel m (invariable)

  1. hotel(s)
  2. the letter H in the Italian spelling alphabet

From English hotel.

hotel (plural **hotel-hotel or **hotel2)

  1. hotel (establishment that provides accommodation for paying guests)

Borrowed from French hôtel. Doublet of hostel and szpital.

hotel m inan (diminutive hotelik)

  1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle.[1] Doublet of hospital and hospedal.

hotel m (plural hotéis)

  1. hotel

  2. ^ “hotel”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

Hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitale. Doublet of spital.

hotel n (plural hoteluri)

  1. hotel

hòtel m inan (Cyrillic spelling хо̀тел)

  1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

hotel m inan (genitive singular hotela, nominative plural hotely, genitive plural hotelov, declension pattern of stroj)

  1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

hotél m anim

  1. hotel
Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. hotél
gen. sing. hotéla
singular dual plural
nominative(imenovȃlnik) hotél hotéla hotéli
genitive(rodȋlnik) hotéla hotélov hotélov
dative(dajȃlnik) hotélu hotéloma hotélom
accusative(tožȋlnik) hotéla hotéla hotéle
locative(mẹ̑stnik) hotélu hotélih hotélih
instrumental(orọ̑dnik) hotélom hotéloma hotéli

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hóteł

  1. masculine singular l-participle of hoteti

Borrowed from French hôtel. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

hotel m (plural hoteles)

  1. hotel
    • 2024 October 17, CNN, “En imágenes: algunos episodios de la vida de Liam Payne”, in CNN en Español‎[5]:
      El cantante Liam Payne murió a los 31 años tras caer desde el tercer piso de un hotel de Buenos Aires, Argentina, informó la policía local.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Borrowed from English hotel, borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Latin hospitālis, from Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis. Doublet of otel and ospital.

hotél (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜆᜒᜎ᜔)

  1. hotel
    Synonym: otel

Borrowed from English hotel.

hotel

  1. hotel

From French hôtel.

hotel ?

  1. hotel