Motel vs Mot - What's the difference?
motel | mot |
A lodging establishment typically featuring a series of rooms whose entrance is immediately adjacent to a parking lot, as might facilitate easy access to one's automobile during an overnight stay, particularly located near a major highway.
Of architecture, interior design, etc, in the style of a motel; identical and anonymous.
Any of several architectural or interior design styles associated with motels, such as "identicalness''", "''anonymity ", or any other perceived attribute of motels, particularly as differentiated from hotels .
Characterized by an anonymous, temporary nature, as motel sex .
Property owned'' by a motel, as "''motel towel''", "''motel ashtray ", possibly imprinted or embroidered with the name of the establishment, frequently appropriated by tourists as a souvenir.
A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
* N. Brit. Rev.
* 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 32:
(obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
(slang, Irish English) A girl, woman or girlfriend, particularly in the Dublin area.
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As a noun motel
is motel.As a preposition mot is
with.motel
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Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)See also
* hotel * inn * motor court * ("motel" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* ----mot
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) mot. Compare motto.Noun
(en noun)- Here and there turns up a savage mot .
- ‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.
- (Bishop Hall)
- Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.
- (Sir Walter Scott)