English Explanatory Dictionary

love hotel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

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Word forms

love hotel love hotels

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.

Synonyms

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

Related words

brothel sexual intercourse
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