motel
[moh-tel]
- a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area or an urban hotel offering parking within the building.
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Origin of motel
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Contemporary Examples
Such a woman would be much more difficult to catch unawares than a teenage escort trapped in a motel room.
Cunningham and a male friend went to the motel and entered the room.
We were finishing steaks at a motel dining room, washing them down with beer, when the waitress could stand it no longer.
He is said by investigators to have acknowledged going with Simonson to a motel in Rochester, Minnesota.
The woman left the motel and went to a Panorama City 7-Eleven, where she called the police.
Historical Examples
I found a motel in a rather untravelled spot and sacked in for the night.
Highways in HidingGeorge Oliver Smith
The car was going to take a dive into the fountain pool in front of my motel.
VigorishGordon Randall Garrett
She says a lot of motel owners do all right as Justices of the Peace.
The Love of Frank NineteenDavid Carpenter Knight
We got into the parking lot of a closed summer motel with a number of other travelers.
The Biography of a RabbitRoy Benson
They were about fifty miles to the west of there in a motel.
The Biography of a RabbitRoy Benson
motel
- a roadside hotel for motorists, usually having direct access from each room or chalet to a parking space or garage
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Word Origin
C20: from motor + hotel
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