hotel

/hoʊˈtɛl/

/həʊˈtel/

Other forms: hotels

When you're on vacation, one place you can stay for a nightly fee is a hotel. Most hotels provide accommodations for sleeping, with minibars, pools, and ice machines to keep you entertained.

While in Australia and New Zealand a hotel can also be a bar or a pub, most English-speakers recognize this word as the equivalent of an inn. Simple hotels give you a bed to sleep in and a bathroom to use, while fancier hotels might have beautiful furnishings, separate sitting rooms, swimming pools, and cafes. In the 1760s, hotel was defined as "an inn of the better sort."

Definitions of hotel

1. noun

   a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services
   types:

   fleabag

   a run-down hotel

   auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge

   a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

   court, motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court

   a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area

   resort hotel, spa

   a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area

   ski lodge

   a hotel at a ski resort

   holiday resort, resort, resort hotel

   a hotel located in a resort area

   caravan inn, caravansary, caravanserai, khan

   an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans

   imaret

   a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey

   motel

   a motor hotel

   post house, posthouse

   an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders

   roadhouse

   an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling

   dude ranch

   a holiday resort offering ranch activities (riding and camping)

   honeymoon resort

   a resort that caters to newlyweds

   ski resort

   a resort with lodging and facilities for skiing

   type of:

   building, edifice

   a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place