HOTEL
What does "HOTEL" mean?
An establishment providing paid lodging and usually meals and services for travellers.
Meanings
- A commercial building offering rooms and services to paying guests for short stays. They checked into a small hotel near the station.
- The code word for the letter H in the NATO phonetic alphabet. He spelled his name: hotel, alpha, lima. technical
Did you know?
- Hotel, hostel, hospital, and hospitality are all cousins - each grew from Latin 'hospes', a single word that meant both 'host' and 'guest'.
- In radio and aviation, 'hotel' isn't a building - it's the agreed code word for the letter H in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Word origin
From French 'hôtel', from Old French 'hostel', a lodging, from Medieval Latin 'hospitale', a guesthouse, from 'hospes' (host, guest). 'Hostel' and 'hospital' share the same root.
Remember it
HOTEL = 'Have Our Travellers Eat and Lie-down' - the two things a lodging promises.
A little poem
A key, a number, a stranger's clean bed-
the lamp left burning by someone now gone,
and the hall holding everything no one said.
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Wordplay
- I asked the pilot to spell where we were staying. He said hotel - and I still don't know which one.
What it teaches
Host and guest were once the same word; good hospitality remembers that either of you could be the other.
Quick facts
What does HOTEL mean?
An establishment providing paid lodging and usually meals and services for travellers.
Is HOTEL a valid word?
Yes — HOTEL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is HOTEL?
HOTEL has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does HOTEL come from?
From French 'hôtel', from Old French 'hostel', a lodging, from Medieval Latin 'hospitale', a guesthouse, from 'hospes' (host, guest). 'Hostel' and 'hospital' share the same root.
What can HOTEL teach us?
Host and guest were once the same word; good hospitality remembers that either of you could be the other.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.