different between resort vs motel

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?(?)t/

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
2. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).

   to have resort to violence
3. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (riz?to)
• ? Portuguese: resort
• ? Spanish: resort

Derived terms

• seaside resort
• Silverado Resort

Translations

Verb

resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)

1. (intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

     He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table […]
2. (intransitive) To fall back; to revert.
   • 1713, Matthew Hale, The History of the Common Law of England

     The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.
3. (intransitive) To make one's way, go (to).
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:

     The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.

Derived terms

• last resort

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? sort

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i??s?(?)t/

Verb

resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To repeat a sorting process; sort again.

Alternative forms

• re-sort

Translations

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. An act of sorting again.
   • 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer, Volume 16:

     "If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.

Etymology 3

From French ressort.

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Cunning

     Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.

Further reading

• resort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resort in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• resort at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Storer, Torres, retros, roster, sorter, storer

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English resort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?z?rt/
• Hyphenation: re?sort
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

resort n (plural resorts)

1. A resort (place with recreational environment for holidays).

Polish

Etymology

From French ressort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.s?rt/

Noun

resort m inan

1. government department

   Synonym: ministerstwo

2. (colloquial) jurisdiction (power or right to exercise authority)

   Synonym: kompetencje

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) resortowy

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From English resort.

Noun

resort m (plural resorts)

1. resort (a relaxing environment for people on vacation)

Spanish

Etymology

From English resort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?so?t/, [re?so?t?]

Noun

resort m (plural resorts)

1. resort (place for vacation)

English

Etymology

Blend of motor +? hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, USA, established in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (1878–1974).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mo??t?l/
• Rhymes: -?l
• Hyphenation: mo?tel

Noun

motel (plural motels)

1. (also attributive) A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there.
2. A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.

Synonyms

• (hotel): See also Thesaurus:lodging place
• (love hotel): See also Thesaurus:love hotel

Translations

See also

• hotel
• inn
• motor court
• tourist court

Verb

motel (third-person singular simple present motels, present participle moteling or motelling, simple past and past participle moteled or motelled)

1. (informal, intransitive) To stay in a motel or motels.

Further reading

• motel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• metol

Basque

Noun

motel

1. stammerer

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mot?l]

Noun

motel m inan

1. motel

Derived terms

• motýlek

Further reading

• motel in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• motel in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English motel. The gender and pronunciation were adapted to agree with hotel.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

motel n (plural motels, diminutive motelletje n)

1. A motel (roadside hotel for motorists).

Polish

Etymology

From English motel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.t?l/

Noun

motel m inan (diminutive motelik)

1. motel

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) motelowy

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (General Brazilian) Rhymes: -?w

Noun

motel m (plural motéis)

1. love hotel (short-stay hotel for sex)

Romanian

Etymology

From French motel, from English motel.

Noun

motel n (plural moteluri)

1. motel

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?te?l/
• Hyphenation: mo?tel

Noun

mòt?l m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. motel

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

motel m (plural moteles)

1. motel
2. (Mexico) brothel, whorehouse

Turkish

Noun

motel (definite accusative moteli, plural moteller)

1. motel

Declension