Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

love hotel

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.89 in modern English

Syllables
love ho-tel
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ラブホテル (rabu hoteru), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from love + hotel. The term probably makes reference to the rotating sign of the Hotel Love, an early love hotel in Osaka, Japan.

Inflected Forms

love hotels (plural)

Phrases

sexual intercourse

Frequently Paired Words

brothel sexual intercourse

Synonyms

autohotel fast sheet hot-sheet motel love hotel maison de passe no-tell hotel no-tell motel motel

Questions

What does love hotel mean?
A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.
Where does love hotel come from?
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ラブホテル (rabu hoteru), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from love + hotel. The term probably makes reference to the rotating sign of the Hotel Love, an early love hotel in Osaka, Japan.

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