hotel

hotel

1. Alternative letter-case form of Hotel of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

• hôtel (archaic)

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /(h)əʊˈtɛl/
• (US) enPR: hō-tĕlʹ, IPA^(key): /hoʊˈtɛl/
• (Southern US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊtɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

hotel (plural hotels)

1. (now chiefly historical) A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France. [from 17th c.]
   • 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 2, in The Age of Innocence, New York: D. Appleton and Company:

     [T]he cream-coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the private hotels of the Parisian aristocracy) was there[.]

3. An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. [from 17th c.]
   • 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 […] .

   • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:

     Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

4. (South Asia) A restaurant; any dining establishment.
5. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Hotel from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
6. The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.
7. The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.
8. (Australia, western Canada) A pub.

• The UK pronunciation omitting the initial /h/ is in imitation of the French hôtel and is now considered old-fashioned (unless of course the speaker always drops /h/).

• See also Thesaurus:lodging place

• hostel

• inn
• motel

• Holte, Thole, helot, hetol, lothe, thole

• IPA^(key): /hɔtɛl/

hotel m (plural hotele, definite hoteli, definite plural hotelet)

1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

hotel m (plural hoteles)

1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈtɛl]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [oˈtəl]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [oˈtel]

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hotel m (plural hotels)

1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦotɛl]

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hotel m inan

1. hotel

• “hotel”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “hotel”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “hotel”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

From French hôtel.

hotel n (singular definite hotellet, plural indefinite hoteller)

1. hotel

• “hotel” in Den Danske Ordbog

• hôtel (obsolete)

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Latin hospitālis. Doublet of hospitaal.

• IPA^(key): /ɦoːˈtɛl/

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• Hyphenation: ho‧tel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

hotel n (plural hotels, diminutive hotelletje n)

1. hotel

• badhotel
• bijenhotel
• berghotel
• familiehotel
• hotelbed
• hotelbediende
• hoteleigenaar
• hotelgast
• hotelhouder
• hotelier
• hotelkamer
• hotelketen
• hotelmanager
• hotelschool
• strandhotel

• botel
• motel

• Afrikaans: hotel
• → Aukan: oteli
• → Indonesian: hotel
• → West Frisian: hotel

• holte

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle.

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈtɛl/ [ɔˈt̪ɛɫ]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

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• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

hotel m (plural hoteis)

1. hotel

   Hotel de cinco estrelas..

   Five-star hotel..

• “hotel”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Borrowed from German Hotel, from French hôtel, from Old French hostel, from Latin hospitāle. ^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈhotɛl]
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

hotel (plural hotelek)

1. hotel

   Synonyms: szálloda, szálló

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	hotel	hotelek
accusative	hotelt	hoteleket
dative	hotelnek	hoteleknek
instrumental	hotellel	hotelekkel
causal-final	hotelért	hotelekért
translative	hotellé	hotelekké
terminative	hotelig	hotelekig
essive-formal	hotelként	hotelekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hotelben	hotelekben
superessive	hotelen	hoteleken
adessive	hotelnél	hoteleknél
illative	hotelbe	hotelekbe
sublative	hotelre	hotelekre
allative	hotelhez	hotelekhez
elative	hotelből	hotelekből
delative	hotelről	hotelekről
ablative	hoteltől	hotelektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	hotelé	hoteleké
non-attributive possessive - plural	hoteléi	hotelekéi

Possessive forms of hotel
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hotelem	hoteljeim
2nd person sing.	hoteled	hoteljeid
3rd person sing.	hotelje	hoteljei
1st person plural	hotelünk	hoteljeink
2nd person plural	hoteletek	hoteljeitek
3rd person plural	hoteljük	hoteljeik

Less commonly:^[2]

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	hotel	hotelok
accusative	hotelt	hotelokat
dative	hotelnak	hoteloknak
instrumental	hotellal	hotelokkal
causal-final	hotelért	hotelokért
translative	hotellá	hotelokká
terminative	hotelig	hotelokig
essive-formal	hotelként	hotelokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hotelban	hotelokban
superessive	hotelon	hotelokon
adessive	hotelnál	hoteloknál
illative	hotelba	hotelokba
sublative	hotelra	hotelokra
allative	hotelhoz	hotelokhoz
elative	hotelból	hotelokból
delative	hotelról	hotelokról
ablative	hoteltól	hoteloktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	hotelé	hoteloké
non-attributive possessive - plural	hoteléi	hotelokéi

Possessive forms of hotel
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hotelom	hoteljaim
2nd person sing.	hotelod	hoteljaid
3rd person sing.	hotelja	hoteljai
1st person plural	hotelunk	hoteljaink
2nd person plural	hotelotok	hoteljaitok
3rd person plural	hoteljuk	hoteljaik

• hotel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Dutch hotel, from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel; inherited from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable; pertaining to a host or guest”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhotɛl]

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• Hyphenation: ho‧tèl

hotèl (first-person possessive hotelku, second-person possessive hotelmu, third-person possessive hotelnya)

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

• hostel

• “hotel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel (“hostel”, “inn”), from Old French ostel (“shelter”), from Latin hospitālis (“pertaining to hospitality”). Doublet of ospedale and ospitale.

• IPA^(key): /oˈtɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: ho‧tèl

hotel m (invariable)

1. hotel(s)
2. the letter H in the Italian spelling alphabet

• albergo

• ostello

• → Cimbrian: hotèl

From English hotel.

hotel (plural hotel-hotel, informal 1st possessive hotelku, 2nd possessive hotelmu, 3rd possessive hotelnya)

1. hotel (establishment that provides accommodation for paying guests)

Borrowed from French hôtel. Doublet of hostel and szpital.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔ.tɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔtɛl
• Syllabification: ho‧tel

hotel m inan (diminutive hotelik)

1. hotel

• hotel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hotel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle.^[1] Doublet of hospital and hospedal.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

hotel m (plural hotéis)

1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitale. Doublet of spital.

• IPA^(key): /hoˈtel/

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hotel n (plural hotele)

1. hotel

• hotelier

• IPA^(key): /xǒtel/
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

hòtel m (Cyrillic spelling хо̀тел)

1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɔtel]

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hotel m inan (genitive singular hotela, nominative plural hotely, genitive plural hotelov, declension pattern of stroj)

1. hotel

• “hotel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Borrowed from French hôtel.

• IPA^(key): /xɔtɛ̀ːl/

hotél m anim

1. hotel

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	hotél
gen. sing.	hotéla
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	hotél	hotéla	hotéli
genitive (rodȋlnik)	hotéla	hotélov	hotélov
dative (dajȃlnik)	hotélu	hotéloma	hotélom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	hotéla	hotéla	hotéle
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	hotélu	hotélih	hotélih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	hotélom	hotéloma	hotéli

• “hotel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hóteł

1. masculine singular l-participle of hoteti

Borrowed from French hôtel. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

• IPA^(key): /oˈtel/ [oˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: ho‧tel

hotel m (plural hoteles)

1. hotel

• “hotel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from English hotel.

hotel

1. hotel

From French hôtel.

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hotel ?

1. hotel