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# hotel

noun (a hotel, hotels)

«hotel» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A hotel is a building where people pay to sleep and eat when they are travelling or on holiday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#m1)

### In the lessons

In everyday life, families stay in hotels on trips; a hotel has a reception desk, rooms with keys or key cards, and often a restaurant or pool. In maths problems, hotels come up with prices per night and floors and room numbers. In safety: learn where the fire exits are, and stay with your adults. In Australia and New Zealand, «hotel» can also mean a pub. Phrases: stay at a hotel, check in, check out, hotel room, book a hotel.

### Examples

- We stayed at a hotel near the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x1)
- The hotel room had two beds and a view of the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x2)
- We checked in at the hotel reception. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x3)
- A room at the hotel costs 80 dollars a night, so three nights cost 240 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x4)
- Always find the fire exit when you arrive at a hotel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x5)
- The hotel had a swimming pool on the roof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x6)
- We are in the midst of Paris, in a great hotel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x7)

### Note

«A hotel» (usually, with «a»). Stress on the second syllable: ho-TEL. A motel is a hotel for drivers, where you park by your room. In maths, «per night» means for each night: multiply by the number of nights.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hotel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hotel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hotel.html) on Mova free.