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ho·tel

 (hō-tĕl′)
n.
An establishment that provides lodging and usually meals and other services for travelers and other paying guests.

[French hôtel, from Old French hostel, hostel; see hostel.]
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hotel

(həʊˈtɛl)
n
(Commerce) a commercially run establishment providing lodging and usually meals for guests, and often containing a public bar
[C17: from French hôtel, from Old French hostel; see hostel]

Hotel

(həʊˈtɛl)
n
(Telecommunications) communications a code word for the letter h
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ho•tel

(hoʊˈtɛl)

n.
a commercial establishment offering lodging to travelers and sometimes to permanent residents.
[1635–45; < French hôtel, Old French hostel hostel]
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hôtel

A large French town house.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.hôtel - a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other serviceshotel - a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services
building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
fleabag - a run-down hotel
auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge - a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
hotel room - a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel
motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court, court - a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area
resort hotel, spa - a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area
Ritz - an ostentatiously elegant hotel
ski lodge - a hotel at a ski resort
holiday resort, resort, resort hotel - a hotel located in a resort area
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hotel

noun inn, motel, bed and breakfast, guest house They are staying in a hotel near the airport.
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Translations
أوتيلفندقفُنْدُقفُنْدُقٌ
hotel
hotel
hotelo
Harald
hotelliHeikki
होटल
hotel
szálloda
hótel
ホテル旅館
호텔
viešbučio šeimininkasviešbutis
viesnīca
hotel
hotel
hotell
โรงแรม
khách sạn

hotel

[həʊˈtel]
A. Nhotel m
B. CPD the hotel industry Nel sector hotelero
hotel manager Ndirector(a) m/f de hotel
hotel receptionist Nrecepcionista mf de hotel
hotel room Nhabitación f de hotel
hotel staff Nplantilla f de hotel
hotel work Ntrabajo m de hostelería
hotel workers NPLtrabajadores/oras mpl/fpl de hostelería
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hotel

[ˌhəʊˈtɛl]
nhôtel m
to stay at a hotel → loger à l'hôtel
We stayed in a hotel → Nous avons logé à l'hôtel.
modif [guest, manager] → d'hôtel; [restaurant, lobby] → d'hôtel; [reservation] → d'hôtelhotel accommodation nséjour m à l'hôtelhotel chain nchaîne f hôtelière
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

hotel

nHotel nt

hotel

:
hotel industry
nHotelgewerbe nt, → Hotellerie f
hotel keeper
nHotelier m, → Hotelbesitzer(in) m(f)
hotel manager
nHoteldirektor(in) m(f)
hotel porter
nHaus- or Hoteldiener(in) m(f)
hotel room
nHotelzimmer nt
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hotel

[həʊˈtɛl] nalbergo, hotel m inv
hotel room → camera d'albergo
hotel workers → personale m alberghiero
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

hotel

(həˈtel) noun
a usually large house or building where travellers, holidaymakers etc may receive food, lodging etc in return for payment. The new hotel has over five hundred bedrooms.
hoˈtelier (-liə) noun
a person who owns, and sometimes manages, a hotel.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

hôtel

فُنْدُقٌ hotel hotel Hotel ξενοδοχείο hotel hotelli hôtel hotel albergo ホテル 호텔 hotel hotell hotel hotel гостиница hotell โรงแรม otel khách sạn 酒店
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Hotel   
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It was the golden end of afternoon as the coach stopped in front of the main hotel, The Golden Fortune; and for the benefit of any with not too long purses who shall hereafter light on Yellowsands, and be alarmed at the name and the marble magnificence of that delightful hotel, I may say that the charges there were surprisingly "reasonable," owing to one other wise provision of the young lord and master of that happy place, who had had the wit to realise that the nicest and brightest and prettiest people were often the poorest.
I am an old customer at the hotel we are going to; and if we find the place full, the landlord may be depended on to take care of any letters with my name on them.
Carriages were already bringing the guests of Fouquet to Saint-Mande; already the whole house was getting warm with the preparations for supper, when the superintendent launched his fleet horses upon the road to Paris, and going by the quays, in order to meet fewer people on the way, soon reached the Hotel de Ville.
The hotel of the provincial town where Nikolay Levin was lying ill was one of those provincial hotels which are constructed on the newest model of modern improvements, with the best intentions of cleanliness, comfort, and even elegance, but owing to the public that patronizes them, are with astounding rapidity transformed into filthy taverns with a pretension of modern improvement that only makes them worse than the old-fashioned, honestly filthy hotels.
If you meet a member of that select club, "The Twelve True Fishermen," entering the Vernon Hotel for the annual club dinner, you will observe, as he takes off his overcoat, that his evening coat is green and not black.