: an establishment which provides lodging and parking and in which the rooms are usually accessible from an outdoor parking area
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The motel, which is owned by his father and his uncle, emigrants from London, is not far from where Naran grew up, in Echo Park.
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Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
The mother of an 11-year-old boy has been arrested for knifing him to death at a motel in Southern California after a trip to Disneyland, officials said.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2025
Choose from single rooms in the motel, or the guesthouse, a 1950’s bungalow-style inn with three guest rooms and a two-room suite that’s ideal for a group.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025
March 13 in a motel parking lot in the 1800 block of Embarcadero near the Oakland Estuary.
—Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
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Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
The mother of an 11-year-old boy has been arrested for knifing him to death at a motel in Southern California after a trip to Disneyland, officials said.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2025
Choose from single rooms in the motel, or the guesthouse, a 1950’s bungalow-style inn with three guest rooms and a two-room suite that’s ideal for a group.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025
March 13 in a motel parking lot in the 1800 block of Embarcadero near the Oakland Estuary.
—Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Motel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motel. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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motel
noun
mo·tel
mō-ˈtel 
: a building or group of buildings which provide lodgings and in which the rooms are usually reached directly from an outdoor parking lot
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