motel Definition
☆ mo·tel (mō tel′)
noun
a hotel intended primarily for those traveling by car, usually with easy access from each room to an area for cars
Etymology: coined (1925) by A. S. Heineman, U.S. architect (< mo(tor) + (ho)tel) for an inn in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
motel Synonyms
motel
n.
motel Usage Examples
Converse of object
- find: After finding a motel and eating lunch I circle the one-way streets of little downtown Astoria until I find parking at the library.
- wow: Concentrate on doing we desire our wowed the motel the moral dilemma.
- run: I did a crash course on running a motel and became the Night Manager.
Preposition: for
night: We passed the mountain on an untarred road going down to Heber City, where we found a cheap motel for the night.
Adjective modifier
- cheap: We passed the mountain on an untarred road going down to Heber City, where we found a cheap motel for the night.
- small: We then checked into the scenic Rwenzori Guest House, like a small motel with family style dining.
- old: We quickly crossed the street to the old motel where I already had a room.
- seedy: No-one is speaking, but there's already enough heat in the seedy motel 's atmosphere to fry a rattle snake or two.
- local: He planned to stay at a local airfield motel once a week to clean up and wash clothes.
- sleazy: The cast shared rooms in a sleazy motel during the first two weeks of filming in Palmdale.
Modifies a noun
- inn: The hotel is laid back motel holiday inn with a hobo feeling of decidedly decadent difference... .
- room: The worst thing in the world is not a motel room in Kansas.
- accommodation: Family run, value for money motel style accommodation.
- hotel: Dyce Skean Dhu is a welcoming and modern motel style hotel.
- style: Family run, value for money motel style accommodation.
- manager: MOTEL MANAGER: The room you rented for the woman?
Noun used with modifier
- roadside: However, no one would willingly choose to spend a week or a fortnight in a Golden roadside motel.
- budget: He was everything that I had hoped the night clerk of a creepy Fargo budget motel would be.
- roach: The Honeynet is kind of like the ' roach motel ' .
- love: Kitsch love motels Posted by ColvilleAndersen 5 November 2005 It's a sexy town, Buenos Aires.
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