Usually means: Roadside hotel for motorists' accommodations.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. motel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. motel: Merriam-Webster
  3. motel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. motel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. motel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. motel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Motel, motel: Wordnik
  8. motel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. motel: Wiktionary
  10. motel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. motel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. motel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. motel: Dictionary.com
  14. motel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. motel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Motel (Motel album), Motel (TV series), Motel (band), Motel (disambiguation), Motel (film), Motel, The Motel (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. motel: Rhymezone
  18. Motel (nt), motel, motel, motel, motel (het), motel (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. motel: FreeDictionary.org
  20. motel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Motel: The Word Detective
  22. motel: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motel: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MOTEL: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Motel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See moteling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (also attributive) 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.
noun:  A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To stay in a motel or motels.

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