: an establishment that provides lodging and usually meals, entertainment, and various personal services for the public : inn
Hotel
2 of 2communications code word
—used as a code word for the letter h
Examples of hotel in a Sentence
Noun
check out of a hotel
for their 50th anniversary they stayed at one of the finest hotels in San Francisco
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2025
The owner of a local hotel allows your rival to speak there?
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025
Their season aired amid the COVID-19 pandemic and was filmed in a villa constructed on top of a Las Vegas hotel.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 3 June 2025
The hotel’s private beach, accessible only by elevator cut through solid rock, epitomizes the exclusive yet authentic Italian experience that has drawn discerning travellers for generations.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
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Noun
In the early morning hours, law enforcement received a tip that Tolbert might be inside a hotel at 204 N. Washington St. in Ellis, Kansas, the KBI said in a statement.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2025
The owner of a local hotel allows your rival to speak there?
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025
Their season aired amid the COVID-19 pandemic and was filmed in a villa constructed on top of a Las Vegas hotel.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 3 June 2025
The hotel’s private beach, accessible only by elevator cut through solid rock, epitomizes the exclusive yet authentic Italian experience that has drawn discerning travellers for generations.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
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“Hotel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hotel. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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hotel
noun
ho·tel
hō-ˈtel 
: an establishment that provides lodging and often meals, entertainment, and personal services for its guests
Etymology
Noun
from French hôtel "hotel," from early French hostel "a place for travelers to spend the night," derived from Latin hospitalis "of a guest, showing hospitality," from hospit-, hospes "host, stranger, guest" — related to hospital, hospitality
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