Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- 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.
Wiktionary
- n. lodging establishment typically featuring a series of rooms whose entrance is immediately adjacent to a parking lot, as might facilitate easy access to one's automobile during an overnight stay, particularly located near a major highway
- n. Of or relating to a motel.
- n. Of architecture, interior design, etc, in the style of a motel; identical and anonymous.
- adj. any of several architectural or interior design styles associated with motels, such as "identicalness", "anonymity", or any other perceived attribute of motels, particularly as differentiated from hotels.
- adj. characterized by an anonymous, temporary nature, as motel sex.
- adj. property owned by a motel, as "motel towel", "motel ashtray", possibly imprinted or embroidered with the name of the establishment, frequently appropriated by tourists as a souvenir.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a motor hotel
Etymologies
- Blend of motor and hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, established in 1925 by Arthur Heinman (Wiktionary)
- Blend of motor and hotel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“(Your motel is a bit cut off by a highway so walking isn't as easy an option for you.)”
“She dropped me off and I headed to check in into what I called a motel posing and costing like a hotel.”
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“Norman Bates, the proprietor of the motel, is the quintessential loner.”
“What we are supposed to think is since the boys are hanging out in motel rooms ... they are getting busy on one another, despite being related.”
“Would you describe how you would plug your acoustic guitar in motel rooms, into the cassette machine?”
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“A big, bullet-proof glass shield between me and the clerk at a motel is creepy, too.”
“Friday, October 26, 2007 cheapest in motel saltlake ut said ... actually, that's brilliant.”
“Alan Moore is the desk clerk at the Wein motel, making cryptic precognitive type comments throughout.”
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“In McAllen my favorite motel is Posada Ana (Budget motel of the Drury chain) which is located on Interstate 83 North Frontage road [heads West] just East of 10th.”
“I am mostly concerned about finding a house to rent without having to stay in motel too long as I have a dog.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘motel’.
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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Portmanteau words
Words created by blending the sounds and meanings of two pre-existing words.
(The older or the more commonly accepted/understood, the better IMO.)smog, tangelo, motel, telethon, blog, paratrooper, breathalyzer, internet, cremains, moped, chortle, camcorder and 4 more...
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portmanteaus
slithy, chortle, mimsy, galumph, maffluent, smog, motel, momentaneous, splisters, swifting, editated, splatter and 73 more...
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chefjulianin's Words
high, ice, recipe, bear, bare, lady, food, identity, sudden, spooky, away, cook and 142 more...
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nighthawks at the diner
being words from Tom Waits songs.
vinyl, cigarette, rhinestone, naugahyde, margarine, vermouth, gin, platinum, wurlitzer, menthol, oldsmobile, asphalt and 90 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Lyrics
Mixed lyrics, students need to analyze the words and decide which ones are related to which songs
make-up, pretty, funny, walls, come down, wreck, heavy, February, valentine, regret, dance, young and 38 more...
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OM3 Lesson 36
exit, feel like, Baskin Robbins, banana split, share, coupon, good for, deal, scoop, pistachio, cup, cone and 14 more...
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Portmanteaus
Words created by combining 2 (or sometimes more)
smog, spork, brunch, camcorder, chortle, cremains, cyborg, fantabulous, ginormous, frenemy, ebonics, gerrymander and 34 more...
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accomodation
key, mirror, garden, balcony, bathroom, blanket, dishwasher, refrigerator, bed sheet, deposit, duplex, vacuum cleaner and 12 more...
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Temporary Lodging
Hotels, inns, and the like.
hotel, resort hotel, holiday resort, motor hotel, tourist court, motel, inn, lodge, ski lodge, motor lodge, motor inn, resort and 52 more...
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Room At The Inn
Words to do with hotels, inns, resorts, guesthouses ... broad in scope :-)
no-show, guesthouse, booking, room, single, double, triple, restaurant, concierge, laundry service, turn-down, porter and 81 more...
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The Roaring Twenties
A selection of words and phrases that entered the language between 1920 and 1929. Primary sources for this list are:
There's a Word For It by Sol Steinmetz (2010, Harmony Books, New Y...nobrow, booboisie, robot, It girl, scofflaw, Babbitt, bozo, feedback, icky, daiquiri, subprime, T-shirt and 27 more...
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Tweets
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