English word senses marked with topical category "Hotels"
Parent categories: Businesses, Hospitality, Tourism, Business, Travel, Economics, Society, Human activity, Transport, Social sciences, Human behaviour, Sciences, Human
Total 25 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 commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
- hostel (Noun) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
- hostel (Noun) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
- hostel (Noun) A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.
- 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) Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
- inn (Noun) One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
- inn (Noun) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
- 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 low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
- 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.
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