motel
Meanings
Plural: motels
Noun
- a motor hotel
- 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.
- A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
Verb
- To stay in a motel or motels.
Origin / Etymology
Blend of motor + hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, USA, established in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (1878–1974).
Scrabble Score: 7
motel is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordmotel is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
motel is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
motel is a valid Words With Friends word