Hotelize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make into, or similar to, a hotel. ergative, transitive

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

Example

More examples

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

Etymology

From hotel + -ize. Piecewise doublet of hospitalize.

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