motor lodge

noun

: motel

Examples of motor lodge in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

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

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