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motel

[ moh-tel ]

noun

  1. 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.


motel

/ məʊˈtɛl /

noun

  1. a roadside hotel for motorists, usually having direct access from each room or chalet to a parking space or garage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of motel1

First recorded in 1920–25; blend of motor and hotel
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Word History and Origins

Origin of motel1

C20: from motor + hotel
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Example Sentences

She tried to use an app on her phone to translate, but a minute later the man steered into the lot of another motel.

The most recent, “Rip Crew,” centers on the exploits of Valentine Pescatore, a former Border Patrol agent asked to look into a mysterious massacre of migrant women in a motel room.

The drive is mostly grain silos and fast food signs and a bunch of tiny towns that are pretty much the same, all equipped with a highway-side motel that’d make a good place to get shot.

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His mother was a model, and his father worked in motel and restaurant management.

He has entry and exit records at the airport nearest to me, and told me what motel he stayed at when he was trying to find me in San Francisco.

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.

I dressed hastily, and as I pulled my clothing on I took a slow dig at the other cabins in the motel.

They opened up the motel so we would have a place to spend the night in the lobby and some of the rooms.

Actually, the spotel business isn't much different from running a plain, ordinary motel back on Highway 101 in California.

Like I said, the spotel business isn't so different from the motel game back in California.

My impression was that he didn't have money to pay for the trip or the motel or anything.

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