Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hotelize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hotelize
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make into, or similar to, a hotel.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"[…] and there is nothing to be seen there except Mr. Franck's hotel, a fine old palace of the kind which hotelize so well."
"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.""
"The former Kolb's is now slated for renovation into a hotel, joining the modern corner structure, which was hotelized in 2000 […]"

Etymology

From hotel + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hospitalize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hotel

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

hotelizes (present, singular) hotelizing (participle, present) hotelized (participle, past) hotelized (past)

Questions

What does hotelize mean?: To make into, or similar to, a hotel.
Where does hotelize come from?: From hotel + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hospitalize.

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