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: an establishment which provides lodging and parking and in which the rooms are usually accessible from an outdoor parking area
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An outreach worker found them all and helped connect the family to several services, including the nonprofit Housing 4 the Homeless, which currently provides them with two motel rooms in Point Loma.
—Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
Rain gets incredibly sick from the surgery, which was organized by some of the club’s less-than-reputable mean girls and performed in a motel room.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Once in Colorado, the workers were packed eight people to a motel room — with just one mattress and box spring, the lawsuit states.
—Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2024
Further complications arose when Lois returned to the motel room to find all evidence of Justin’s death scrubbed; Megan denied enlisting Glorious to take care of things, despite Lois spotting them together.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
blend of motor and hotel
First Known Use
1925, in the meaning defined above
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“Motel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motel. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
motel
noun
mo·tel
mō-ˈtel
: a building or group of buildings which provide lodgings and in which the rooms are usually reached directly from an outdoor parking lot
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