mo·tel

[moh-tel]
noun
a hotel providing travelers with lodging and free parking facilities, typically a roadside hotel having rooms adjacent to an outside parking area or an urban hotel offering parking within the building.
Origin:
1920–25; blend of motor and hotel

Can be confused: hostel, hotel, motel (see synonym study at hotel).
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motel (məʊˈtɛl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
a roadside hotel for motorists, usually having direct access from each room or chalet to a parking space or garage
 
[C20: from motor + hotel]

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Word Origin & History

motel
1925, coined from motor + hotel. Originally a hotel for automobile travelers.
"The Milestone Interstate Corporation ... proposes to build and operate a chain of motor hotels between San Diego and Seattle, the hotels to have the name 'Motel.' " ["Hotel Monthly," March 1925]
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Example sentences
Ask whether kitchenettes are available when making hotel or motel reservations.
There's been reports all week of independent hotel and motel operators gouging
  customers.
In the cinder-block motel room he set the alarm, but his own stertorous
  breathing woke him before it rang.
The motel features one- or two-bed rooms with microwaves, telephones and air
  conditioning.
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