motel
Syllables: mo·telUS/moʊˈtɛl/
motel noun: a type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles.
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Noun
motel (plural motels)
- A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles.
- Synonyms:
- motor hotel
- A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; a love hotel.
Verb
motel (third-person singular simple present motels, present participle motelling, simple past and past participle motelled)
- To stay in a motel or motels.
motel meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
motel in Hindi
- type of hotel
- मोटेल moṭel
motel in Tamil
- உந்து உலாவினர் உணவகம், உந்துணவகம், உந்துலாவினர் உணவகம்
motel in Urdu
- type of hotel
- موٹل moṭel
motel in Bengali
- মোটেল
More languagesFewer languages
- motel in Gujarati
- મોટેલ moṭel
- motel in Arabic
- مُوتِيل mutil
- motel in Malay
- motel
- motel in Persian
- متل motel, راهسرا
- motel in Thai
- โมเต็ล moo-dtel
- motel in Vietnamese
- mô-ten, mô ten
- motel in Myanmar
- မိုတယ် muitai
Examples of motel in a sentence
- I don't like to stay in motels.
- MAHONEY: In the beginning, the NYSE was truly the roach motel.
- Soon afterwards, a nosy motel receptionist noticed a nasty niff from a new guest.
Synonyms of motel
Forms of motel
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | motels |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | motels |
| present participle | motelling |
| past participle | motelled |
| past | motelled |
Origin of motel
Blend of motor + hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, United States, established in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (1878–1974).
Words formed from motel
Phrases with motel
Words that rhyme with motel
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hell
- hotel
- repel
- smell
- cartel
- dell
- pell
- quell
- as well
- au naturel
- dwell
- expel
- fell
- gel
- La Rochelle
- lol
- oversell
- stell
- wel
- ABDL
- dispel
- ell
- kell
- knell
- mell
- personnel
- quenelle
- snell
- undersell
- yell
- belle
- death knell
- del
- farewell
- flotel
- foretell
- gazelle
- impel
- mademoiselle
- marcel
- mel
- morell
- Moselle
- NFL
- overswell
- propel
- pucelle
- rappel
Questions about motel
- What does motel mean?
- Motel means a type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles.
- What is motel in Hindi?
- Motel in Hindi is मोटेल (moṭel). See Motel meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is motel?
- Motel can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce motel?
- Motel is pronounced /moʊˈtɛl/ (US).
- What is the plural of motel?
- The plural of motel is motels.
Words near motel in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: motel (page history and authors); motel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); motel (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); મોટેલ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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