motel

A motel sign

Blend of motor +‎ hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, USA, established in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (1878–1974).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /moʊˈtɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: mo‧tel

motel (plural motels)

1. (also attributive) A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there.
2. A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.

• (hotel): See also Thesaurus:lodging place
• (love hotel): See also Thesaurus:love hotel

• hot-sheet motel
• no-tell motel
• roach motel

• hotel
• inn
• motor court
• tourist court

motel (third-person singular simple present motels, present participle moteling or motelling, simple past and past participle moteled or motelled)

1. (informal, intransitive) To stay in a motel or motels.

• motel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• metol

motel

1. stammerer

• IPA^(key): [ˈmotɛl]

motel m inan

1. motel

• motel in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• motel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• motel in Internetová jazyková příručka

Borrowed from English motel. The gender and pronunciation were adapted to agree with hotel.

• IPA^(key): /moːˈtɛl/

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• Hyphenation: mo‧tel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

motel n (plural motels, diminutive motelletje n)

1. A motel (roadside hotel for motorists).

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motel m (plural motels)

1. motel

• “motel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English motel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.tɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔtɛl
• Syllabification: mo‧tel

motel m inan (diminutive motelik)

1. motel

• motel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• motel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English motel.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: mo‧tel

motel m (plural motéis)

1. love hotel (short-stay hotel for sex)

• moteleiro

• “motel” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “motel” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “motel” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “motel” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from French motel, from English motel.

motel n (plural moteluri)

1. motel

• IPA^(key): /mǒteːl/
• Hyphenation: mo‧tel

mòtēl m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀те̄л)

1. motel

• IPA^(key): /moˈtel/ [moˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: mo‧tel

motel m (plural moteles)

1. motel
2. (Mexico) brothel, whorehouse

• “motel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English motel or Spanish motel.

• IPA^(key): /moˈtel/, [moˈtɛl]
• Hyphenation: mo‧tel

motél (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜆᜒᜎ᜔)

1. motel
2. love hotel; no-tell motel
   • 2008, J. Luis Camacho, Dagta:

     Muli ko bang pahahabain ang puntong ito para hindi tumuloy sa dulo ng kuwento? Sa Cubao rin kami napunta sa mamahaling motel.

     Will I extend this part again so we don't reach the end of the story? We ended up in Cubao, in a classy love hotel.

• otel

• “motel”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

motel (definite accusative moteli, plural moteller)

1. motel