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hotelkeeper

hotelkeeper noun: a hotelier; a hotel owner.

Noun

hotelkeeper (plural hotelkeepers)

  1. A hotelier; a hotel owner.
    • 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.1857, Henry A. Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free
    • Leon Chevret, the French hotelkeeper, said of him to a lawyer of his acquaintance, "Bret Harte, he have the Napoleonic nose, the nose of genius; also, like many of you professional men, his debts trouble him very little."1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty

Forms of hotelkeeper

pluralhotelkeepers

Origin of hotelkeeper

From hotel + keeper.

Questions about hotelkeeper

What does hotelkeeper mean?
Hotelkeeper means a hotelier; a hotel owner.
What part of speech is hotelkeeper?
Hotelkeeper is a noun.
What is the plural of hotelkeeper?
The plural of hotelkeeper is hotelkeepers.

Words near hotelkeeper in the dictionary

  1. hotelization
  2. hotelize
  3. hotelized
  4. hotelizes
  5. hotelizing
  6. hotelkeeper
  7. hotelkeepers
  8. hotelkeeping
  9. hotelless
  10. hotellike
  11. hotelling

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