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HOTEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hotel" is a kind of...):
building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)
Meronyms (parts of "hotel"):
hotel room (a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hotel"):
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)
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)
Context examples:
And, as it happened, I was very soon to have another peep at it, for a most unexpected event befell us as we drew up in front of the Crown hotel.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Aries is the sign of adventure, so choose a setting you’ve never been to, and plan an active vacation at a hotel or resort that will allow you to participate in sports.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
When staying in hotels, put your suitcases on luggage racks instead of the floor.
(Bedbugs, Environmental Protection Agency)
Thereupon, I arranged my clothes as best I could, and summoning a passing hansom, drove to an hotel in Portland Street, the name of which I chanced to remember.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And at the other side the groove continued on over the land—a well-disposed, respectable groove that supplied hotels at every stopping-place, and hotels on wheels between the stopping-places.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Catherine was all eager delight—her eyes were here, there, everywhere, as they approached its fine and striking environs, and afterwards drove through those streets which conducted them to the hotel.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
There will be some of us at the 'Rose de Guienne' to-night, which is two doors from the hotel of the 'Half Moon,' so if you would drain a cup with a few simple archers you will be right welcome.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Gardiner left Longbourn on Sunday; on Tuesday his wife received a letter from him; it told them that, on his arrival, he had immediately found out his brother, and persuaded him to come to Gracechurch Street; that Mr. Bennet had been to Epsom and Clapham, before his arrival, but without gaining any satisfactory information; and that he was now determined to inquire at all the principal hotels in town, as Mr. Bennet thought it possible they might have gone to one of them, on their first coming to London, before they procured lodgings.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Well, our ship stopped in the morning, before it was quite daylight, at a great city—a huge city, with very dark houses and all smoky; not at all like the pretty clean town I came from; and Mr. Rochester carried me in his arms over a plank to the land, and Sophie came after, and we all got into a coach, which took us to a beautiful large house, larger than this and finer, called an hotel.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Lord Godalming went to the Consulate to see if any telegram had arrived for him, whilst the rest of us came on to this hotel—the Odessus.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
