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means A building that rents out furnished rooms, usually with meals and services, for travelers to sleep in temporarily.

from From French hôtel, which once just meant a grand private residence or 'townhouse' for hosting guests — it's a cousin of 'hostel' and 'hospital,' all tracing back to Latin hospes, meaning both 'host' and 'guest.' The French word's circumflex (ô) is a little grave marker for a lost 's' — it used to be spelled hostel before that letter dropped out of French spelling over time, which is also why English kept 'hostel' and 'hospital' as separate words from the same root.