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 →

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 →
• The motel had a swimming pool and free breakfast. tree →
• Dad parked the car right outside our motel room. tree →
• There's a cheap motel just off the highway. tree →
• The motel sign flashed "VACANCY" in red. tree →
• We stopped at a motel in the outback for the night. tree →
• In Australia many small towns have one pub and one motel. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.