English word senses marked with topical category "Hotels"

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Total 23 word senses

• auberge (Noun) An inn or hostel.
• bed and breakfast (Noun) A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.
• boarding house (Noun) A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.
• boatel (Noun) A ship, normally moored alongside a quay, used as a hotel
• boutique hotel (Noun) A small hotel in settings with upscale accommodations and individualized unique selling points.
• bughouse (Noun) A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum.
• fast sheet (Noun) A hotel or similar establishment catering to prostitutes.
• floatel (Noun) A floating hotel; a boatel
• flotel (Noun) living quarters built on a floating platform, such as near an offshore oil rig.
• guesthouse (Noun) A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.
• hostel (Noun) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
• hotel (Noun) An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.
• hotel room (Noun) A room at a hotel where a customer can spend the night.
• inn (Noun) One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
• love hotel (Noun) A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.
• motel (Noun) A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles.
• motel (Noun) A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
• motel (Verb) To stay in a motel or motels.
• no-tell hotel (Noun) Synonym of no-tell motel: a love hotel
• no-tell motel (Noun) A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.
• pension (Noun) A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
• poshtel (Noun) An upscale or luxury hostel.
• walk (Verb) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.

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