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# motel

«motel» in Mova's school dictionary: **A hotel by a road for people travelling by car, where you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a motel, motels)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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