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Webster 1913 Edition
Hotel
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.