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Residence vs Motel - What's the difference?

residence | motel |

As nouns the difference between residence and motel

is that residence is residence (place where one resides) while motel is motel.

residence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The place where one lives.
  • * Macaulay
  • Johnson took up his residence in London.
  • A building used as a home.
  • The place where a corporation is established.
  • The state of living in a particular place or environment.
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
  • The place where anything rests permanently.
  • * Milton
  • But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
  • subsidence, as of a sediment
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
  • (Jeremy Taylor)

    motel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • 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.
  • See also

    * hotel * inn * motor court * ("motel" on Wikipedia)

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