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# hotel

«hotel» in Mova's school dictionary: **a building where people pay to sleep and eat when they…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hotel, hotels)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x2)
- We checked in at the hotel reception. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x4)
- Always find the fire exit when you arrive at a hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x5)
- The hotel had a swimming pool on the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/#x6)
- We are in the midst of Paris, in a great hotel. [tree →](https://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Ruby asked «What was your hotel like?» and the friend changed the subject.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/17/)
- [And in Limerick, Aoife, whose family has little money, is invited to a rich classmate's party at a fancy hotel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/492-friends-who-only-come-for-the-pool-rich-kids-and-rumours/25/)
- [Neither is a hotel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/10/)
- [Staying with family instead of a hotel saves money: 5 nights at £80 is £400 saved.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hotel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hotel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.