English Explanatory Dictionary

capsule hotel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).

Word forms

capsule hotel capsule hotels

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese カプセルホテル (kapuseru hoteru), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from capsule + hotel.

Synonyms

pod hotel
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