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hotelkeeper

American  
[hoh-tel-kee-per] / hoʊˈtɛlˌki pər /

noun

  1. a manager or owner of a hotel.


Etymology

Origin of hotelkeeper

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30; hotel + keeper


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Riad al-Turk was born in Homs on April 17, 1930, to Mohammed Ali Turk, a local hotelkeeper who died when Riad was very young, and his wife, Amina, a woman of limited means.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

The hotelkeeper interfered at the last moment and the cream landed on Rep. Stevenson.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2016

They discuss a deserter, his connection to the eponymous Auckland hotelkeeper, and his death in a Bulawayo teak forest, burned to charcoal by lightning.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012

The crotchety son of a hotelkeeper in Toucy, he moved to the Paris Latin Quarter just so he could study.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now and then a startled hotelkeeper would object to having the birds register there.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

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