hotelize

H4O1T1E1L1I1Z10E1

verb

To make into, or similar to, a hotel.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

verbhotelize (third-person singular simple present hotelizes, present participle hotelizing, simple past and past participle hotelized)

present singular third person hotelizes · participle present hotelizing · participle past hotelized · past hotelized

  1. ergativetransitiveTo make into, or similar to, a hotel.

    […] and there is nothing to be seen there except Mr. Franck's hotel, a fine old palace of the kind which hotelize so well.

    1886, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 551
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    This, we believe was the first hospital to hotelize its rooms, and, quoting again from THE HOTEL MONTHLY (this from the issue of May 1924): "One of the great movements of today is the hotelizing of hospitals."

    1937, John Willy, Hotel Monthly, volume 45, page 14

    The former Kolb's is now slated for renovation into a hotel, joining the modern corner structure, which was hotelized in 2000 […]

    Richard Campanella, Time and Place in New Orleans: Past Geographies in the Present Day (page 107)

Origin

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