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noun

a hotel that rents furnished apartments or suites suitable for housekeeping, on a weekly or more permanent basis, and usually supplies all hotel services.

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Origin of apartment hotel

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

Words nearby apartment hotel

apart, apart from, apartheid, aparthotel, apartment, apartment hotel, apartment house, apartmentize, Passage to India, A, apast, apastron

How to use apartment hotel in a sentence

Down the block, his victim headed into a distinctly second-rate apartment hotel.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
He was still trying to remember it as he lounged down the block from Engel's apartment hotel at 8:10 the next morning.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
A boy with a carton of groceries almost ran down Louis, then ducked down into the delivery entrance of the apartment-hotel.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Down the block, a taxi that had been parked with meter ticking across from Engel's apartment-hotel drew away slowly.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various

She took a comfortable little nook in an apartment hotel and settled down to meditate.
The Cup of Fury|Rupert Hughes