MOTEL

motel

(noun) a motor hotel

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

motel (plural motels)

(also attributive) A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there.

A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.

Synonyms

• (hotel): See also lodging place

• (love hotel): See also love hotel

Verb

motel (third-person singular simple present motels, present participle motelling or moteling, simple past and past participle motelled or moteled)

(informal, intransitive) To stay in a motel or motels.

Anagrams

• metol

Source: Wiktionary



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