motel

Plural: motels

Noun

• A roadside hotel, typically with direct room access.
• a motor hotel
• 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.
• A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.

Verb

• To stay in a motel or motels.

Examples

• He hoped his opponent’s large word wasn’t a MOTEL blocking the path to the bonus squares.

Related Words

hotel, inn, motor court, tourist court