: 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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Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
The September morning of the film’s festival premiere at Venice, Ferguson had placed that small dinosaur toy on her hotel room nightstand.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Some of it that idea of being in a hotel room and being vulnerable.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Born in 1960, the elder Adams — the one whose wife, Judy, received the surprise visitor to her hotel room — stood out at the rink because of his fondness for stretching on the bench between shifts.
—Rob Rossi, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
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Noun
At a crowded hotel bar, three women from County Kerry sit watching couples dance the Irish jive, an upbeat couples dance that resembles the Lindy Hop.
—Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
The September morning of the film’s festival premiere at Venice, Ferguson had placed that small dinosaur toy on her hotel room nightstand.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Some of it that idea of being in a hotel room and being vulnerable.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Born in 1960, the elder Adams — the one whose wife, Judy, received the surprise visitor to her hotel room — stood out at the rink because of his fondness for stretching on the bench between shifts.
—Rob Rossi, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Hotel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hotel. Accessed 13 Oct. 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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