Meanings
plural hoteliers · alternative hôtelier
- Someone who owns or runs a hotel.
Near-synonym: hôtelière (feminine form, rare)
3 more examples
Mumbai: Hotelier Gaurav Arya arrived at the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) office in Mumbai on Tuesday to record his statement in a money laundering case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death.
2020 September 1, “Goa Hotelier Being Questioned For Second Day In Sushant Rajput Case”, in NDTV.comJim managed to secure employment in a hotel on the lake shore, but even then I could see that his interest in being a hotelier was waning.
2020 January 30, Maurice Holland, Just a simple innkeeper: The Journey of an Irish Hotelier, Australian Self Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 68, →ISBNHe was, by nature and choice, a hotelier and destined to become the most famous hotelier in the world.
1964, Conrad N. Hilton, hotelier, page 75
Synonyms & antonyms
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nounan owner or manager of hotels
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstis
- Proto-Indo-European*pótis
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstipotis
- Proto-Italic*hostipotis
- Latinhospes
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinhospitālis
- Old Frenchostel
- Middle Frenchhostel
- Frenchhôtel
- Frenchhôtelier
- Englishhotelier
Borrowed from French hôtelier.
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Catalan hoteler, hotelera
- hotelersomeone who runs a hotel
- hotelerasomeone who runs a hotel
Chinese Mandarin 旅館經理 /旅馆经理
- 旅館經理 /旅馆经理 (lǚguǎn jīnglǐ)someone who runs a hotel
Czech hoteliér
- hoteliérsomeone who runs a hotel
Finnish hotellinpitäjä
- hotellinpitäjäsomeone who runs a hotel
French hôtelier, hôtelière
- hôteliersomeone who runs a hotel
- hôtelièresomeone who runs a hotel
German Hotelier, Hotelierin
- Hoteliersomeone who runs a hotel
- Hotelierinsomeone who runs a hotel
Greek ξενοδόχος
- ξενοδόχος (xenodóchos)someone who runs a hotel
Icelandic hótelstjóri, hótelhaldari
- hótelstjórisomeone who runs a hotel
- hótelhaldarisomeone who runs a hotel
Japanese ホテル経営者
- ホテル経営者 (hoteru keieisha)someone who runs a hotel
Polish hotelarz, hotelarka
- hotelarzsomeone who runs a hotel
- hotelarkasomeone who runs a hotel
Portuguese hoteleiro, hoteleira
- hoteleirosomeone who runs a hotel
- hoteleirasomeone who runs a hotel
- proprietário de hotelsomeone who runs a hotel
- dono de hotelsomeone who runs a hotel
- gerente de hotelsomeone who runs a hotel
Romanian hotelier, hotelieră
- hoteliersomeone who runs a hotel
- hotelierăsomeone who runs a hotel
Russian владе́лец оте́ля, управля́ющий оте́ля
- владе́лец оте́ля (vladélec otɛ́lja)someone who runs a hotel
- управля́ющий оте́ля (upravljájuščij otɛ́lja)someone who runs a hotel
- отелье́р (otɛlʹjér)someone who runs a hotel
Scottish Gaelic òstair, fear an taighe
- òstairsomeone who runs a hotel
- fear an taighesomeone who runs a hotel
Spanish hotelero
- hotelerosomeone who runs a hotel
Turkish otelci
- otelcisomeone who runs a hotel
Cite this entry
hotelier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hotelier
“hotelier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hotelier. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hotelier,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hotelier.
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