My friends and I stayed in a motel during our road trip across the country.
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
verb
1
To stay in a motel or motels.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6
01
A motel is like a hotel only much smaller and is used mostly by people traveling by automobile.
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02
The motel can accommodate as many as 400 guests.
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03
It was in 1832 that Evariste Galois fell in love with Stephanie-Felicie Poterin du Motel.
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04
I checked into a motel and went right to sleep.
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05
I run a motel.
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06
We drove back to the motel.
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Usage Notes
i Register
In some senses, motel is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.