hotel

hotel

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

• hôtel (archaic)

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /(h)əʊˈtɛl/
• (US) enPR: hō-tĕlʹ, IPA^(key): /hoʊˈtɛl/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊtɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

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, volume 407, number 8842, 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.

3. (South Asia) A restaurant; any dining establishment.
4. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Hotel from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
5. The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.
6. The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.
7. (Australia, western Canada) A pub.

• The UK pronunciation omitting the initial h is in imitation of the French hôtel and is now considered old-fashioned.

• See also Thesaurus:lodging place

• hostel

• inn
• motel

• Holte, Thole, helot, hetol, lothe, thole

• IPA^(key): /hɔtɛl/

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.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈtɛl]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [oˈtəl]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [oˈtel]

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hotel m (plural hotels)

1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦotɛl]

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hotel m inan

1. hotel

• hotel in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• hotel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• hotel in Internetová jazyková příručka

From French hôtel.

hotel n (singular definite hotellet, plural indefinite hoteller)

1. hotel

• “hotel” in Den Danske Ordbog

• hôtel (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɦoːˈtɛl/

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• Hyphenation: ho‧tel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

hotel n (plural hotels, diminutive hotelletje n)

1. hotel

• badhotel
• bijenhotel
• berghotel
• familiehotel
• hotelbed
• hotelbediende
• hoteleigenaar
• hotelgast
• hotelhouder
• hotelier
• hotelkamer
• hotelketen
• hotelschool
• strandhotel

• botel
• motel

• Afrikaans: hotel
• → Aukan: oteli
• → Indonesian: hotel
• → West Frisian: hotel

• holte

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle.

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈtɛl/

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hotel m (plural hoteis)

1. hotel

   Hotel de cinco estrelas..

   Five-star hotel..

• “hotel”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈhotɛl]
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

hotel (plural hotelek)

1. hotel

   Synonyms: szálloda, szálló

• hotel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhotɛl]
• Hyphenation: ho‧tèl

hotèl (first-person possessive hotelku, second-person possessive hotelmu, third-person possessive hotelnya)

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

• hostel

• “hotel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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.

• IPA^(key): /oˈtɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: ho‧tèl

hotel m (invariable)

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

• albergo

• ostello

• → Cimbrian: hotèl

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”). Doublet of hostel (“hostel”) and szpital (“hospital”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔ.tɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔtɛl
• Syllabification: ho‧tel

hotel m inan (diminutive hotelik)

1. hotel

• hotel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hotel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

hotel m (plural hotéis)

1. hotel

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

• IPA^(key): /hoˈtel/

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hotel n (plural hotele)

1. hotel

• hotelier

• IPA^(key): /xǒtel/
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

hòtel m (Cyrillic spelling хо̀тел)

1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɔcel]

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

1. hotel

• “hotel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Borrowed from French hôtel.

• IPA^(key): /xɔtɛ̀ːl/

hotél m anim

1. hotel

• “hotel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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.

• IPA^(key): /oˈtel/ [oˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: ho‧tel

hotel m (plural hoteles)

1. hotel

• “hotel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English hotel.

hotel

1. hotel

From French hôtel.

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hotel ?

1. hotel