motor lodge

noun

: motel

Examples of motor lodge in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Previously a 1960s motor lodge, it’s been reimagined by hospitality experts Keath and Dave Jacoby, who took it from being a botched reno property to one that feels mid-century cool. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for motor lodge

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