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单词 hotel
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
ho•tel /hoʊˈtɛl/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. a building that offers a temporary place to stay for travelers.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
ho•tel  (hō tel),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a commercial establishment offering lodging to travelers and sometimes to permanent residents, and often having restaurants, meeting rooms, stores, etc., that are available to the general public.
  2. Military(cap.) the NATO name for a class of nuclear-powered Soviet ballistic missile submarine armed with up to six single-warhead missiles.
  3. Telecommunicationsa word used in communications to represent the letter H.
  • French hôtel, Old French hostel hostel
  • 1635–45
ho•telless, adj. 
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged hostelry, hostel, guesthouse, motel. Hotel, house, inn, tavern refer to establishments for the lodging or entertainment of travelers and others. Hotel is the common word, suggesting a more or less commodious establishment with up-to-date appointments, although this is not necessarily true:the best hotel in the city; a cheap hotel near the docks.The word house is often used in the name of a particular hotel, the connotation being wealth and luxury:the Parker House; the Palmer House.Inn suggests a place of homelike comfort and old-time appearance or ways; it is used for quaint or archaic effect in the names of some public houses and hotels in the U.S.:the Pickwick Inn; the Wayside Inn.A tavern, like the English public house, is a house where liquor is sold for drinking on the premises; until recently it was archaic or dialectal in the U.S., but has been revived to substitute for saloon, which had unfavorable connotations:Taverns are required to close by two o'clock in the morning.The word has also been used in the sense of inn, esp. in New England, ever since Colonial days:Wiggins Tavern.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
hotel /həʊˈtɛl/ n
  1. a commercially run establishment providing lodging and usually meals for guests, and often containing a public bar
Etymology: 17th Century: from French hôtel, from Old French hostel; see hostel
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