motor lodge

noun

: motel

Examples of motor lodge in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Inspired by the American roadside motor lodge of yore, Tourists is built for contemporary design lovers with lots of light wood on the banks of the Hoosic River. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026

Down the road, Hotel Willa, which occupies the site of a former 1960s adobe motor lodge, reopened in May 2025 as a 51-room luxury boutique hotel. — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 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