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.

• Hyphenation: ho‧tel
• enPR: hōtĕl′, hō′tĕl, hō′təl, Rhymes: -ɛl, -əʊtəl
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /həʊˈtɛl/, /əʊˈtɛl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hoʊˈtɛl/

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• (Southern US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊtɛl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /hoːˈtɛl/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.ʈəl/, /(h)oˈʈɛl/, [(ɦ)oː.ʈɐl], [(ɦ)oː.ʈɛːl]

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/).

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^[1], volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 1 November 2020, 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.

   • 2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.

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

• See also Thesaurus:lodging place

• hostel

• inn
• motel

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

Borrowed from French hôtel.

• IPA^(key): /hɔtɛl/

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

1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

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

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), 2008–2026

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

• 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, 2012–2026

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

Less commonly:^[2]

• hotel in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhotɛl/ [ˈho.t̪ɛl]

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• Rhymes: -otɛl
• Syllabification: ho‧tel

hotèl (plural hotel-hotel)

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 [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• otello

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 or hotel²)

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.

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

hotel m (plural hotéis)

1. hotel

• “hotel”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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

• IPA^(key): /hoˈtel/

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hotel n (plural hoteluri)

1. hotel

• hotelier

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

hòtel m inan (Cyrillic spelling хо̀тел)

1. hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

• IPA^(key): /ɦɔtel/, [ˈɦɔtel]
• Rhymes: -ɔtel
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

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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, 2003–2026

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), 2014–2026

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
   • 2024 October 17, CNN, “En imágenes: algunos episodios de la vida de Liam Payne”, in CNN en Español‎^[3]:

     El cantante Liam Payne murió a los 31 años tras caer desde el tercer piso de un hotel de Buenos Aires, Argentina, informó la policía local.

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• “hotel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from English hotel.

hotel

1. hotel

From French hôtel.

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hotel ?

1. hotel