hotel

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Rather expensive, but as homelike as a hotel could be and housing many old-time Chicago friends.

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  1. noun An establishment that provides lodging and usually meals and other services for travelers and other paying guests.

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  • He replied that in the hotel was a Southern lady who would not leave her trunks, in which there were all her diamonds and other valuables, and that he could not find a porter to bring them down. —  Memoirs
  • I did not know then that this hotel was a second-rate one, not having had experience with the best, but if I had, I should not have wondered at his choice, for there was nothing in his appearance, as I have already intimated, or in his manners up to this point, to lead me to think he was one of the city's great swells, and that it was only in such an unfashionable house as this he would be likely to pass unrecognized. —  That Affair Next Door
  • "You and Phil can do as you like, and Cousin Robert and Mr. Starr; but I shall sit up Of course I told her I would sit up, too; and as Mr. van Buren said the commercial travelers had left the dining-room, he and Mr. Starr and Nell and I bade Lady MacNairne good-night, and went down The unfortunate Rabbit was in the act of putting out the light, but he was obliged to leave it for us, a necessity which distressed him By-and-by it was eleven, and the hotel was as silent as a hotel in a Dead City ought to be. —  The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
  • In rear of the hotel is a deep ravine densely wooded, and covered with a luxuriant vegetable growth. —  The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
  • The soirées held in this hotel were a great improvement on the licentious assemblies of the period; but many imitators made the thing ridiculous, because they wanted the same presiding talent and good taste The two girls of Molière’s comedy are Madelon and Cathos, the daughter and niece of Gorgibus, a bourgeois. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
 

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  1. French hôtel, from Old French hostel, hostel; see hostel.

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  1. from French hôtel, from Old French hostel, an inn, etc., later Middle English hostel, English hostel, q. v.
 

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/həˈtɛl/
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