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capsule hotel

capsule hotel noun: a type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).

capsule hotel: a type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules)
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Noun

capsule hotel (plural capsule hotels)

  1. A type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).
    • "In there?" Yamazaki indicates what he takes to be another door, like the entrance to a hutch, curtained with a soiled square of melon-yellow, foam-cored blanket, the sort of blanket one finds in a capsule hotel.1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 3
    Synonyms:
    pod hotel

Synonyms of capsule hotel

Forms of capsule hotel

pluralcapsule hotels

Origin of capsule hotel

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese カプセルホテル (kapuseru hoteru), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from capsule + hotel.

Questions about capsule hotel

What does capsule hotel mean?
Capsule hotel means a type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).
What part of speech is capsule hotel?
Capsule hotel is a noun.
What is the plural of capsule hotel?
The plural of capsule hotel is capsule hotels.

Words near capsule hotel in the dictionary

  1. capsulates
  2. capsulating
  3. capsulation
  4. capsulations
  5. capsule
  6. capsule hotel
  7. capsule hotels
  8. capsule of lens
  9. capsule review
  10. capsule reviews
  11. capsulectomies

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