"love hotel" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: love hotels [plural]
Etymology: Calque of Japanese ラブホテル (rabu hoteru), from English love + hotel, probably after the rotating sign of the Hotel Love, an early love hotel in Osaka, Japan. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|ja|ラブホテル|tr=rabu hoteru}} Calque of Japanese ラブホテル (rabu hoteru), {{der|en|en|love}} English love, {{m|en|hotel}} hotel Head templates: {{en-noun}} love hotel (plural love hotels)
  1. A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse. Wikipedia link: love hotel Categories (topical): Hotels, Love, Sex Synonyms: autohotel, fast sheet [attributive, slang], hot-sheet motel, love hotel, maison de passe, no-tell hotel [slang], no-tell motel [slang] Hypernyms: building, hotel, lodging place, organization Related terms: brothel, sexual intercourse Translations (short-stay hotel for sex): 情侶酒店 (Chinese Mandarin), 情侣酒店 (qínglǚ jiǔdiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 愛情旅館 (Chinese Mandarin), 爱情旅馆 (àiqíng lǚguǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 情人旅館 (Chinese Mandarin), 情人旅馆 (qíngrén lǚguǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 鐘點房 (Chinese Mandarin), 钟点房 (zhōngdiǎnfáng) (english: hourly rate hotel) (Chinese Mandarin), shortstay [Suriname, masculine] (Dutch), tuntihotelli (Finnish), love hotel [masculine] (French), Love Hotel [neuter] (German), ラブホテル (rabu hoteru) (Japanese), ラブホ (rabuho) (Japanese), 連れ込み宿 (tsurekomiyado) (alt: つれこみやど) [dated] (Japanese), ブティックホテル (butikku hoteru) (english: industry euphemism) (Japanese), ファッションホテル (fasshon hoteru) (english: industry euphemism) (Japanese), 러브호텔 (reobeuhotel) (Korean), motel [masculine] (Portuguese), любо́вный оте́ль (ljubóvnyj otɛ́lʹ) [masculine] (Russian), мини-гости́ница (mini-gostínica) [feminine] (Russian), гости́ница с почасово́й опла́той (gostínica s počasovój oplátoj) [feminine] (Russian), гости́ница на час (gostínica na čas) [feminine] (Russian), albergue transitorio [masculine] (Spanish), telo [Argentina, masculine] (Spanish), kärlekshotell [neuter] (Swedish), เลิฟโฮเต็ล (lə́əf-hoo-dtel) (Thai)

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      "word": "telo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "short-stay hotel for sex",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kärlekshotell"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "lə́əf-hoo-dtel",
      "sense": "short-stay hotel for sex",
      "word": "เลิฟโฮเต็ล"
    }
  ],
  "word": "love hotel"
}

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