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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A hotelier.

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  • noun A hotelier, a hotel owner.

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  • noun an owner or manager of hotels

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Examples

  • She was, in the words of Notable American Women, “the best-known hotelkeeper in America.”

    Jennie Grossinger. 2009

  • When an American traveler asked the legation to intercede in her dispute with a hotelkeeper, Hay advised her to drop the matter.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • When an American traveler asked the legation to intercede in her dispute with a hotelkeeper, Hay advised her to drop the matter.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • "Let's see what happens with the rand and foremost with the problem of criminality", remarked a hotelkeeper there, touching on the sensitive point that the big cities like Johannesburg, Cape

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Wyckoff, a hotelkeeper in the East, apparently had business troubles, and, after his wife died, he moved with his teen-age daughters and a new wife to Sauk City to try his luck at running a hotel on the frontier.

    Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

  • The American system is doubtless the best for the hotelkeeper, as there are manifest advantages in feeding masses at once, over feeding the same number in detail.

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

  • It is worth noting that this French hotelkeeper and the German baron in the adjoining hospital had both fought, though of course on opposite sides, in the great Franco-Prussian war of thirty years ago, and now they found themselves overwhelmed by another great war wave in one of the remotest and seemingly most inaccessible fastnesses of

    With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

  • He said to the hotelkeeper that there was no need of announcing it to the boarders, but Dr. Hopkins said he would do it anyway, and for him to get Barnum out of the house and to a hospital, that he would ruin him.

    The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail William H. Ryus

  • The hotelkeeper and his wife, we were told, were already "refugees."

    The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Various

  • Many of these buildings were whitewashed, and one enterprising hotelkeeper had erected a brick addition to his log structure.

    Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

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