motor lodge

noun

: motel

Examples of motor lodge in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Once night falls in the Utah desert, though, the temperatures cool off, most tourists head back to their campsites and motor lodges, and the stars shine through that clear desert sky. — Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2026

Hotel Margot started as a 1950s motor lodge in downtown Pensacola along historic Palafox Street. — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2026

The hotel itself, which had opened as a motor lodge in the 1950s and then transformed into a Southwestern roadside hotel, had also fallen into disrepair. — Madeleine Kashkooli, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

Most of these hotels, motels and motor lodges were built around the same time the federal government began numbering highways (like Route 66) in the mid-1920s. — Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for motor lodge

• fuselage
• auge
• hodge
• podge
• dislodge
• hodgepodge