hotelkeeper

noun

Etymology

From hotel + keeper.

  1. inherited from kepere
  2. compounded as hotelkeeper — “hotel + keeper

Definitions

  1. A hotelier

    A hotelier; a hotel owner.

    • The American system is doubtless the best for the hotelkeeper, as there are manifest advantages in feeding masses at once, over feeding the same number in detail.
    • Leon Chevret, the French hotelkeeper, said of him to a lawyer of his acquaintance, "Bret Harte, he have the Napoleonic nose, the nose of genius; also, like many of you professional men, his debts trouble him very little."
    • Enquiry revealed that the train had been worked through to Dingwall for hotelkeepers and press reporters who were travelling to a conference at Strathpeffer.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA