Meanings
plural capsule hotels
- A type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).
"In there?" Yamazaki indicates what he takes to be another door, like the entrance to a hutch, curtained with a soiled square of melon-yellow, foam-cored blanket, the sort of blanket one finds in a capsule hotel.
1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 3Synonyms: pod hotel
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).
Origin
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese カプセルホテル (kapuseru hoteru), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from capsule + hotel.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 膠囊酒店 /胶囊酒店, 膠囊旅館 /胶囊旅馆
- 膠囊酒店 /胶囊酒店 (jiāonáng jiǔdiàn)hotel with capsules
- 膠囊旅館 /胶囊旅馆 (jiāonáng lǚguǎn)hotel with capsules
Finnish kapselihotelli
- kapselihotellihotel with capsules
French hôtel capsule
- hôtel capsulehotel with capsules
German Kapselhotel
- Kapselhotelhotel with capsules
Japanese カプセルホテル
- カプセルホテル (kapuseruhoteru)hotel with capsules
Korean 캡슐 호텔
- 캡슐 호텔hotel with capsules
Portuguese hotel-cápsula, hotel cápsula
- hotel-cápsulahotel with capsules
- hotel cápsulahotel with capsules
Russian ка́псульный оте́ль
- ка́псульный оте́ль (kápsulʹnyj otɛ́lʹ)hotel with capsules
Spanish hotel cápsula
- hotel cápsulahotel with capsules
Swedish kapselhotell
- kapselhotellhotel with capsules
Vietnamese khách sạn con nhộng
- khách sạn con nhộnghotel with capsules
Cite this entry
capsule hotel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capsule%20hotel
“capsule hotel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capsule%20hotel. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “capsule hotel,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/capsule%20hotel.
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