motel

Etymology


, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, USA, established in 1925 by (1878–1974).

Noun

 * 1)  A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there.
 * 2) A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:lodging place
 * See also Thesaurus:love hotel

Derived terms

 * hot-sheet motel
 * no-tell motel
 * roach motel

Translations

 * Albanian: motel
 * Arabic: مُوتِيل
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: motel
 * Belarusian: матэ́ль
 * Bulgarian: моте́л
 * Burmese: မိုတယ်
 * Catalan: motel
 * Cherokee: ᏧᏂᏒᏍᏗᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 汽車旅店
 * Hokkien: mo͘-té-lù
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: karrostel
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: motelo
 * Estonian: motell
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: motel
 * Georgian: მოტელი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मोटेल
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: motelo
 * Irish: óstán, óstán cois bóthair
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, モテル
 * Kazakh: мотель
 * Khmer: ម៉ូតែល
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: motelis
 * Lithuanian: motelis
 * Macedonian: моте́л
 * Malay: motel
 * Manx: carlan oast
 * Maori: mōtēra
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: motell
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: hotel de beira de estrada
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: taigh-òsta motarachd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мо̀те̄л
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: мотел,
 * Thai: โมเต็ล
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: motel
 * Ukrainian: моте́ль
 * Urdu: موٹل
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: mô-ten, mô ten
 * Welsh: motél
 * Yiddish: מאָטעל

Verb

 * 1)  To stay in a motel or motels.

Noun

 * 1) stammerer

Etymology
Borrowed from. The gender and pronunciation were adapted to agree with.

Noun

 * 1) A  roadside hotel for motorists.

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) love hotel short-stay hotel for sex

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  brothel, whorehouse
 * 1)  brothel, whorehouse

Etymology
or.

Noun

 * 1) love hotel; no-tell motel
 * 1) love hotel; no-tell motel

Noun

 * 1) motel