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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; b. motor and hotel
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mo·tel   (mō-těl')   
n.  An establishment that provides lodging for motorists in rooms usually having direct access to an open parking area. Also called motor court, motor lodge.

[Blend of motor and 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]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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