motel
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 of motel
1- Also called motor court, motor inn, motor lodge .
Words that may be confused with motel
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How to use motel in a sentence
In a world without motels and restaurants, people were required to welcome strangers into their homes.
Pope Bids Refugees to EU ‘Bienvenido’; Europe Says ‘Non’ | Candida Moss | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThese days the monastery and motels house people who had to leave Sloviansk.
Ukraine Families Flee Into the Forest to Escape Brutal Fighting in Sloviansk | Yusuf Sayman | June 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTwo older motels, the grocery store, the hardware store and the gun shop have closed.
U.S. Drug and Immigration Checkpoints Take Toll on Border Towns | Andrew Becker, G. W. Schulz | June 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMany of their steamy encounters occurred at motels, she said.
And we were shooting in motels and it was really, really dirty and tough, which is great.
Nicole Kidman on Her Sexy, Award-Worthy Turn in ‘The Paperboy’ | Marlow Stern | December 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
There are good motels between Huntsville and North Bay if we get tired out.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for motel
/ (məʊˈtɛl) /
a roadside hotel for motorists, usually having direct access from each room or chalet to a parking space or garage
Origin of motel
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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