: an establishment which provides lodging and parking and in which the rooms are usually accessible from an outdoor parking area
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Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
Freeman stayed with friends, and then at motels and Airbnbs.
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Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
Freeman stayed with friends, and then at motels and Airbnbs.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for motel
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“Motel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motel. Accessed 10 May. 2024.
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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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