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Webster 1913 Edition


Hotel

Ho-tel′

,
Noun.
[F.
hôtel
, OF.
hostel
. See
Hostel
.]
1.
A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.
2.
In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hotel

HOTEL'

, n.
1.
A palace.
2.
An inn; a house for entertaining strangers or travelers. It was formerly a house for genteel strangers or lodgers, but the name is now given to any inn.

Definition 2024


hôtel

hôtel

See also: hotel, hostel, Hotel, hótel, and hoṭél

French

Noun

hôtel m (plural hôtels)

  1. mansion, town house, hotel
    • 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.ii:
      Le palais épiscopal était un vaste et bel hôtel bâti en pierre au commencement du siècle dernier par monseigneur Henri Puget [...].
      The Bishops' Palace was a vast and beautiful building built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget.
  2. hotel

Derived terms

Descendants


Norman

Etymology

Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.

Noun

hôtel m (plural hôtels)

  1. hotel