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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.

motor hotel, motor inn, cabins, stopping place, road house, court, motor court; see also hotel, lodge, resort 2.

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.