🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

汽车旅馆

Pronunciation / Transliteration: qìchē lǚguǎn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Motel/ˈmoʊ.tɛl/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我们在高速公路旁的一家汽车旅馆过夜。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A roadside hotel designed primarily for motorists, typically having rooms adjacent to an open parking area.

    "We stayed at a cheap motel near the highway during our road trip."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'motel' is a blend of 'motor' and 'hotel', first coined in the 1920s in the United States. It originally referred to roadside hotels designed for motorists, reflecting the rise of automobile travel during that era.

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