单词 | hotel |
释义 | hotel (once / 78 pages) n When you're on vacation, one place you can stay for a nightly fee is a hotel. Most hotels provide accommodations for sleeping, with minibars, pools, and ice machines to keep you entertained. While in Australia and New Zealand a hotel can also be a bar or a pub, most English-speakers recognize this word as the equivalent of an inn. Simple hotels give you a bed to sleep in and a bathroom to use, while fancier hotels might have beautiful furnishings, separate sitting rooms, swimming pools, and cafes. In the 1760s, hotel was defined as "an inn of the better sort." WORD FAMILYhotel: hotelier, hotels+/hotelier: hoteliers USAGE EXAMPLESAbout 200 Muslims who hold their prayers in rented hotel space in Manassas want to build their own space. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) A special thanks to the folks in the reservations department at the Trump International Hotel here who helped us rent this ballroom on last-minute notice. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Clients, the start-up companies say, range from intelligence agencies to hotels. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) n a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services Hypo|Hyper fleabag a run-down hotel auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn, lodgea hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers court, motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist courta hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area resort hotel, spaa fashionable hotel usually in a resort area Ritzan ostentatiously elegant hotel ski lodgea hotel at a ski resort holiday resort, resort, resort hotela hotel located in a resort area caravan inn, caravansary, caravanserai, khanan inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans imareta hostel for pilgrims in Turkey motela motor hotel post house, posthousean inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders roadhousean inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling dude rancha holiday resort offering ranch activities (riding and camping) honeymoon resorta resort that caters to newlyweds ski resorta resort with lodging and facilities for skiing building, edifice a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place |
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