Hotel
[həʊ'tel;əʊ-] or [ho'tɛl]
Definition
(noun.) a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services.
Checked by Joseph--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.
(n.) In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.
Checker: Mario
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inn, tavern, CABARET, public house, house of entertainment.
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Definition
n. a superior house for the accommodation of strangers: an inn: in France also a public office a private town-house a palace.—ns. HéŒel′-de-ville (Fr.) a town-hall; HéŒel′-dieu a hospital.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of living in a hotel, denotes ease and profit. To visit women in a hotel, your life will be rather on a dissolute order. To dream of seeing a fine hotel, indicates wealth and travel. If you dream that you are the proprietor of a hotel, you will earn all the fortune you will ever possess. To work in a hotel, you could find a more remunerative employment than what you have. To dream of hunting a hotel, you will be baffled in your search for wealth and happiness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A place where a guest often gives up good dollars for poor quarters.
Editor: Segre
Examples
- Old Steiler was standing at the porch of his hotel. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We went to the 'commissionaire' of the hotel--I don't know what a 'commissionaire' is, but that is the man we went to--and told him we wanted a guide. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They said we would lie as well as at a hotel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At the hotel I asked Catherine to wait in the carriage while I went in and spoke to the manager. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- You wouldn't think to find such a room as this in the Farringdon Hotel, would you? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I saw the lights of the hotel and rowed out, rowing straight out until they were out of sight. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I am going to breakfast with one of these fellows who is at the Piazza Hotel, in Covent Garden. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He had three wounded Russians in the Palace Hotel for whom he was responsible. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Cassy's air and manner, address, and evident command of money, prevented any rising disposition to suspicion in the hotel. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In the close, handsomely furnished room of a London hotel! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He found that after paying his hotel bill he would have less than half a dollar in the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Back I went to my hotel, put my head in a basin of cold water, and tried to think it out. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- After lunch Ferguson went back to her hotel. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Monseigneur in Town Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I cannot take you to your hotel? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The quality of hotels is shown by an inn with one, two, three, or four gables, and so forth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were many big hotels that were closed but most of the shops were open and the people were very glad to see us. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But if no one else asks her--you know they NEVER go to hotels. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They were about the size of those seen in old-fashioned country hotels for holding the wash-bowl and pitcher. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The quintuple grade is designed more particularly for hotels, restaurants, clubs and other institutions where the wear is especially severe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In this instance, demands for isolated plants for lighting factories, mills, mines, hotels, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Their courtly politeness to each other at the hotels where they tarry is the theme of general admiration. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the cities telephone service is indispensable in apartment houses and hotels which raise people above the noise and dust of the street. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In modern times the art of building has had such an upward trend that edifices looming far into the air, hotels, stores, apartment houses, office buildings, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An unpleasant odour would not be objected to; it is not objected to now in many continental hotels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the station I had expected to see the porters from the hotels but there was no one. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But for hotels and other large institutions washing is now done by steam-power machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There were the long rows of bare trees, the big hotels and the closed villas. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Otis, an American, invented and patented in America and England in 1859 the first approach to the modern passenger elevator for hotels, warehouses, and other structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Responding to its force, thousands of little incandescent threads leap into radiant brightness and shed their mellow and genial light in our offices, our stores, hotels, and homes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Marcus