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hotel

noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • hō-tĕl′
  • hō′tĕl
  • hō′təl
  • Received-Pronunciation: /həʊˈtɛl/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /əʊˈtɛl/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Southern-US: /ˈhoʊ.tɛl/
  • Canada: /hoːˈtɛl/
  • India, North: /ˈhoː.ʈəl/
  • India, North: /hoːˈʈɛːl/
  • India, North: /hoːˈʈeːl/
  • India, South: /ˈ(h)oː.ʈəl/
  • rhymes with -ɛl
  • rhymes with -əʊtəl
  • CMU ARPABET: HH OW0 T EH1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1868, "A Clergyman" (John Morison), Australia in 1866, page 165, When gold-digging commenced in California, the writer was staying at an hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, where a Yankee trader was also staying. Seated at the dining-table, the latter was discoursing of the business he was doing [...] .

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A public house or pub.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, Western

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A restaurant; any dining establishment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: South-Asia

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Alternative letter-case form of Hotel from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of

Qualifier: international standards

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: building, edifice

Narrower terms: fleabag, hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge, motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court, court, resort hotel, spa, Ritz, ski lodge, resort, holiday resort

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis Latin hospitālis Old French ostel Middle French hostel French hôtelbor. English hotel Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostel and hospital.

Across languages

Translations

202 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: асасааирҭа (asasaajrta) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Afrikaans: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Albanian: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Amharic: ሆቴል (hotel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: فُنْدُق (funduq) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: نُزْل (nuzl) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: أُوتِيل (ʔōtēl) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Algerian Arabic: لوتيل (lotil) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: فُنْدُق (fundoʔ) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: أُوتِيل (ʔotel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: لوكاندة (lukanda) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: بنسيون (bansiyon) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: فُنْدُق (fundug) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: أوطيل (ʔuṭil) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: فندق (fandaq) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: فندق (funduʔ) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Arabic: أوتيل (ʔōtēl) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Armenian: հյուրանոց (hyuranocʻ) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Aromanian: utel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Assamese: হোটেল (hütel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Asturian: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Azerbaijani: mehmanxana — establishment providing accommodation
  • Azerbaijani: otel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Bashkir: ҡунаҡхана (qunaqxana) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Basque: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Basque: ostatu — establishment providing accommodation
  • Belarusian: гатэ́ль (hatélʹ) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Belarusian: гасці́ніца (hascínica) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Belarusian: гасьці́ніца (hasʹcínica) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Bengali: হোটেল (hōṭel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Bulgarian: хоте́л (hotél) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Burmese: ဟိုတယ် (huitai) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Carpathian Rusyn: готе́л (hotél) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Catalan: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Cherokee: ᏧᏂᏒᏍᏗᎢ (tsunisvsdii) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Chinese Cantonese: 旅館 /旅馆 (leoi5 gun2) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Chinese Cantonese: 酒店 (zau2 dim3) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Chinese: кифон (kifon) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Hakka Chinese: 旅館 /旅馆 (lî-kón, lî-kòn) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Chinese: 旅館 /旅馆 (lí-koán, lú-koán) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Chinese: 旅社 (lú-siā, lír-siǎ, lí-siā, lír-siā) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 賓館 /宾馆 (bīnguǎn) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Wu Chinese: 飯店 /饭店 — establishment providing accommodation
  • Czech: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Danish: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Dhivehi: ހޮޓާ (hoṭā) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Dutch: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Esperanto: hotelo — establishment providing accommodation
  • Estonian: hotell — establishment providing accommodation
  • Extremaduran: otel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Extremaduran: posá — establishment providing accommodation
  • Fijian: otela — establishment providing accommodation
  • Finnish: hotelli — establishment providing accommodation
  • French: hôtel — establishment providing accommodation
  • North Frisian: hotäl — establishment providing accommodation
  • Galician: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Georgian: სასტუმრო (sasṭumro) — establishment providing accommodation
  • German: Hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • German: Gasthof — establishment providing accommodation
  • Greek: ξενοδοχείο (xenodocheío) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Greenlandic: hoteli — establishment providing accommodation
  • Gujarati: હોટેલ (hoṭel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Gujarati: હોટલ (hoṭal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Haitian Creole: otèl — establishment providing accommodation
  • Hausa: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Hawaiian: hōkele — establishment providing accommodation
  • Hebrew: מָלוֹן (malón) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Hindi: होटल (hoṭal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Hindi: मेहमानख़ाना (mehmānxānā) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Hungarian: szálloda — establishment providing accommodation
  • Hungarian: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Icelandic: hótel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Icelandic: gistihús — establishment providing accommodation
  • Icelandic: gistiheimili — establishment providing accommodation
  • Ido: hotelo — establishment providing accommodation
  • Indonesian: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Irish: óstán — establishment providing accommodation
  • Italian: albergo — establishment providing accommodation
  • Italian: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Japanese: ホテル (hoteru) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Japanese: 宿 (yado) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Japanese: 旅館 (ryokan) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Kannada: ಹೋಟೆಲು (hōṭelu) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Kazakh: қонақ үй (qonaq üi) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Kazakh: мейманхана (meimanxana) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Kazakh: отель (otel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Khmer: សណ្ឋាគារ (sɑnthaakiə) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Khmer: ហោតិល (haotəl) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Khmer: អូតែល (ʼoutael) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Khmer: ផ្ទះសំណាក់ (phtĕəh sɑmnak) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Khmer: សណ្ឋាគារដ្ឋាន (sɑnthaakiərĕəʼthaan) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Korean: 호텔 (hotel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Korean: 여관 (yeogwan) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Korean: 려관 (ryeogwan) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Korean: 객사 (gaeksa) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Northern Kurdish: ûtêl — establishment providing accommodation
  • Northern Kurdish: dîwanxane — establishment providing accommodation
  • Northern Kurdish: mêvanxane — establishment providing accommodation
  • Northern Kurdish: otêl — establishment providing accommodation
  • Northern Kurdish: hotêl — establishment providing accommodation
  • Kyrgyz: мейманкана (meymankana) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Kyrgyz: гостиница (gostinitsa) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Kyrgyz: отель (otel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Kyrgyz: конокчу (konokcu) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Lao: ໂຮງແຮມ (hōng hǣm) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Latin: deversorium — establishment providing accommodation
  • Latvian: viesnīca — establishment providing accommodation
  • Latvian: hotelis — establishment providing accommodation
  • Lithuanian: viešbutis — establishment providing accommodation
  • : ᦷᦣᧂᦶᦃᧅᧈᦶᦂᧁᧉ (hongẋaek1k̇aew2) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Luxembourgish: Hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Macedonian: хоте́л (hotél) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Malagasy: hotely — establishment providing accommodation
  • Malay: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Malayalam: ഹോട്ടൽ (hōṭṭal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Malayalam: ഹൊട്ടേൽ (hoṭṭēl) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Maltese: lukanda — establishment providing accommodation
  • Māori: hōtēra — establishment providing accommodation
  • Marathi: हॉटेल (hŏṭel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Central Melanau: util — establishment providing accommodation
  • Mòcheno: birtshaus — establishment providing accommodation
  • Mongolian: зочид буудал (zočid buudal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Navajo: tsáskʼeh bá hooghan — establishment providing accommodation
  • Nepali: होटल (hoṭal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hotell — establishment providing accommodation
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hotell — establishment providing accommodation
  • Odia: ହୋଟେଲ୍ (hoṭel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Old English: gasthus — establishment providing accommodation
  • Oromo: hoteela — establishment providing accommodation
  • Pannonian Rusyn: готел (hotel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Pashto: هوټل (hoṭal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Pashto: مهمانخانه (mehmānxāna) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Dari: هوتَل (hōtal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Dari: مِهْمَانْخَانَه (mihmānxāna) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Iranian Persian: هُتِل (hotel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Iranian Persian: مِهْمانْخانِه (mehmânxâne) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Plautdietsch: Hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Polish: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Portuguese: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Punjabi: ਹੋਟਲ (hoṭal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Romani: hotèlo — establishment providing accommodation
  • Romanian: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Russian: гости́ница (gostínica) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Russian: оте́ль (otɛ́lʹ) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Scottish Gaelic: taigh-òsta — establishment providing accommodation
  • Serbo-Croatian: хо̀тел — establishment providing accommodation
  • Serbo-Croatian: hòtel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Sicilian: albergu — establishment providing accommodation
  • Sinhalese: හෝටලය (hōṭalaya) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Sinhalese: නවාතැන (nawātæna) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Slovak: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Slovene: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Southern Altai: гостиница (gostinica) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Southern Altai: отель (otelʹ) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Spanish: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Spanish: albergue — establishment providing accommodation
  • Swahili: hoteli — establishment providing accommodation
  • Swedish: hotell — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tagalog: hotel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tagalog: otel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tajik: меҳмонхона (mehmonxona) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tajik: ҳотел (hotel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tajik: отел (otel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tamil: ஓட்டல் (ōṭṭal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tamil: ஹோட்டல் (hōṭṭal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tatar: кунакханә (qunaqxanä) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Telugu: హోటల్ (hōṭal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Thai: โรงแรม (roong-rɛɛm) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Thai: โฮเต็ล (hoo-dtel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tibetan: འགྲུལ་ཁང ('grul khang) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tibetan: མགྲོན་ཁང (mgron khang) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tigrinya: ሆቴል (hotel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Tok Pisin: haus pasindia — establishment providing accommodation
  • Turkish: otel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Turkish: konakçı — establishment providing accommodation
  • Turkmen: myhmanhana — establishment providing accommodation
  • Turkmen: otel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Turkmen: gostinisa — establishment providing accommodation
  • Udmurt: кунокуа (kunokua) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Ukrainian: готе́ль (hotélʹ) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Ukrainian: гости́ниця (hostýnycja) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Urdu: ہوٹَل (hoṭal) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Urdu: مِہْمان خانَہ (mihmān xāna) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Uyghur: مېھمانخانا (mëhmanxana) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Uyghur: ساراي (saray) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Uzbek: mehmonxona — establishment providing accommodation
  • Uzbek: gostinitsa — establishment providing accommodation
  • Uzbek: otel — establishment providing accommodation
  • Vietnamese: khách sạn — establishment providing accommodation
  • Vietnamese: lữ quán — establishment providing accommodation
  • Vietnamese: ô ten — establishment providing accommodation
  • Volapük: lotidöp — establishment providing accommodation
  • Welsh: gwesty — establishment providing accommodation
  • Yiddish: האָטעל (hotel) — establishment providing accommodation
  • Zhuang: lijgvanj — establishment providing accommodation
  • Zhuang: hekdiemq — establishment providing accommodation
  • Zhuang: fanden — establishment providing accommodation
  • Basque: hotel — red property in the game of Monopoly
  • Catalan: hotel — red property in the game of Monopoly
  • Italian: albergo — red property in the game of Monopoly
  • Macedonian: хоте́л (hotél) — red property in the game of Monopoly
  • Swedish: hotell — red property in the game of Monopoly
Real reading context

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