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# motel

noun (a motel, motels)

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

## Everyday

A hotel by a road for people travelling by car, where you can usually park right outside your room. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motel/#m1)

### In the lessons

Common in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand on road trips; it tells the reader the characters are travelling by car and staying somewhere simple and cheap. The word comes from "motor" + "hotel".

### Examples

- We stayed at a motel on our road trip across Canada. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motel/#x1)
- The motel had a swimming pool and free breakfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motel/#x2)
- Dad parked the car right outside our motel room. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motel/#x3)
- There's a cheap motel just off the highway. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motel/#x4)
- The motel sign flashed "VACANCY" in red. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motel/#x5)
- We stopped at a motel in the outback for the night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motel/#x6)
- In Australia many small towns have one pub and one motel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motel/#x7)

### Note

Countable: "a motel", "two motels". A blend word: motor + hotel (like "brunch" = breakfast + lunch). Not the same as "model".

## On Mova

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