a building where rooms and meals are provided for travellers
place where one pays for accommodation
Cases of word usage
1) (an instance of) reserving seats, rooms, places (in a theatre, restaurant, train, hotel etc) (booking)
2) a person who owns or manages a hotel (hotelier)
3) a small hotel or public house (inn)
4) a comfortable sitting room, especially in a club or hotel (lounge)
5) a girl; a young, unmarried woman; a woman who does cleaning in a hotel etc (maid)
6) a hotel for people travelling by car to stop overnight (motel)
7) one side of a piece of paper in a book etc; a young male member of a hotel staff; a boy attending a bride at a wedding (page)
8) a room (in a large house, hotel etc) in which silver, glass etc are kept; a large cupboard, small room, in which food is kept (pantry)
9) a place (not a club, hotel etc) selling alcoholic drinks to be drunk on the premises (pub)
10) (a cause, feeling, of) doubt; an arrangement to keep something for a person to use, e.g. a seat in a train, a room in a hotel (reservation)