different between lounge vs hotel

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain, possibly from French s'allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?nd?/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?

Noun

lounge (plural lounges)

1. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
2. (Britain) A domestic living room.
   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur,^[1] chapter 18:

     The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.

3. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
4. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
5. The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
   • 1849, The Knickerbocker (volume 33, page 198)

     That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.

Synonyms

• (living room): loungeroom (Australia), sitting room (Britain), parlour
• (pub): See also Thesaurus:pub

Descendants

• German: Lounge
• Japanese: ???? (raunji)
• Korean: ??? (raunji)
• Swedish: lounge

Translations

Verb

lounge (third-person singular simple present lounges, present participle lounging, simple past and past participle lounged)

1. To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
   • 1854, J. Hannay, Singleton Fontenoy, R.N

     We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• lugeon

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English lounge

Noun

lounge m (definite singular loungen, indefinite plural lounger, definite plural loungene)

1. a lounge (usually in a hotel, airport or ship)

References

• “lounge” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Spanish

Noun

lounge m (plural lounges or lounge)

1. lounge

Swedish

Etymology 1

lo +? unge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²lu?.???/

Noun

lounge c

1. A lynx cub.

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lounge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹la?nd?/

Noun

lounge c

1. A lounge, a waiting room.

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• hôtel (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostel and hospital.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /(h)???t?l/
• (US) enPR: h?-t?l?, IPA^(key): /ho??t?l/
• Rhymes: -?l
• Hyphenation: ho?tel

Noun

hotel (plural hotels)

1. (now chiefly historical) A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France. [from 17th c.]
2. An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. [from 17th c.]
   • 1868, "A Clergyman" (John Morison), Australia in 1866, page 165,

     When gold-digging commenced in California, the writer was staying at an hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, where a Yankee trader was also staying. Seated at the dining-table, the latter was discoursing of the business he was doing […] .
3. (South Asia) A restaurant; any dining establishment.
4. Hotel, the letter H in the ICAO spelling alphabet. [from 20th c.]
5. The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.
6. The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.

Usage notes

• The UK pronunciation omitting the initial h is in imitation of the French hôtel and is now considered old-fashioned.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lodging place

Derived terms

Related terms

• hostel

Descendants

Translations

See also

• inn
• motel

Anagrams

• Holte, Thole, helot, hetol, lothe, thole

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?t?l/

Noun

hotel m (indefinite plural hotele, definite singular hoteli, definite plural hotelet)

1. hotel

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospit?le.

Noun

hotel m (plural hoteles)

1. hotel

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospit?le. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o?t?l/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u?t?l/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?tel/

Noun

hotel m (plural hotels)

1. hotel

Czech

Etymology

From French hôtel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ot?l/

Noun

hotel m inan

1. hotel

Declension

Derived terms

• hotýlek

Further reading

• hotel in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• hotel in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From French hôtel.

Noun

hotel n (singular definite hotellet, plural indefinite hoteller)

1. hotel

Further reading

• “hotel” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Alternative forms

• hôtel (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Latin hospit?lis. Doublet of hospitaal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o??t?l/
• Hyphenation: ho?tel
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

hotel n (plural hotels, diminutive hotelletje n)

1. hotel

Derived terms

• badhotel
• bijenhotel
• berghotel
• familiehotel
• hotelbed
• hotelbediende
• hoteleigenaar
• hotelgast
• hotelhouder
• hotelier
• hotelkamer
• hotelketen
• hotelschool
• strandhotel

Related terms

• botel
• motel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: hotel
• ? Indonesian: hotel
• ? West Frisian: hotel

Anagrams

• holte

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospit?le.

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel m (plural hoteis)

1. hotel

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hotel, from French hôtel, from Old French hostel, from Latin hospit?le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hot?l]
• Hyphenation: ho?tel
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

hotel (plural hotelek)

1. hotel

Declension

Derived terms

• hotelszoba

References

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch hotel, from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel; inherited from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospit?lis (“hospitable; pertaining to a host or guest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hot?l]
• Hyphenation: ho?tèl

Noun

hotèl (first-person possessive hotelku, second-person possessive hotelmu, third-person possessive hotelnya)

1. hotel, an establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.

Derived terms

Related terms

• hostel

Further reading

• “hotel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel (“hostel”, “inn”), from Old French ostel (“shelter”), from Latin hospit?lis (“pertaining to hospitality”). Doublet of ospedale and ospitale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?t?l/
• Hyphenation: ho?tèl

Noun

hotel m (invariable)

1. hotel(s)
2. The letter H in the Italian spelling alphabet.

Synonyms

• albergo

Related terms

• ostello

Descendants

• ? Cimbrian: hotèl

Polish

Etymology

From French hôtel, from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?.t?l/

Noun

hotel m inan (diminutive hotelik)

1. hotel

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) hotelowy

Related terms

• (nouns) hotelarz, hotelarka, hotelarstwo, hoteling
• (adjective) hotelarski

Further reading

• hotel in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• hotel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospit?le. Doublet of hospital and hospedal.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.?t??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.?t?w/, [ö.?t????]
• Rhymes: -?w

Noun

hotel m (plural hotéis)

1. hotel

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitale. Doublet of spital.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho?tel/

Noun

hotel n (plural hotele)

1. hotel

Declension

Related terms

• hotelier

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?tel/
• Hyphenation: ho?tel

Noun

hòtel m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. hotel

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospit?le. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?tel/, [o?t?el]
• Rhymes: -el

Noun

hotel m (plural hoteles)

1. hotel

See also

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from English hotel.

Noun

hotel

1. hotel

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel ?

1. hotel