motel

Everyday

A hotel by a road for people travelling by car, where you can usually park right outside your room. tree →

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".