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hotelier

UK/həʊˈtɛl.i.ə/US/ˌoʊ.tɛlˈjeɪ/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,068 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: hoteliers

A hotelier is somebody who owns or manages a hotel. A well-known hotelier.

The word is French and is used of owners rather than of managers on a salary. A hotelier is judged on the third visit rather than the first.

Definitions of hotelier

  1. 1nounhotelierSomebody who owns or manages a hotel.C2

    “The hotelier had run the same place for thirty-one years.”

hotelier is a person.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    hôtelier

  2. English, today

    hotelier

Borrowed from French hôtelier.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

hotelier in the wild

  • A hotel manager, hotelier, motel manager or lodging manager is a person who manages the operation of a hotel, motel, resort, or other lodging-related establishment.

    Hotel manager

  • Dilip Ray is an Indian politician and hotelier from the state of Odisha.

    Dilip Ray

  • Rocco Forte Hotels is a British hotel group that was established in 1996 by hotelier Sir Rocco Forte and his sister, Olga Polizzi.

    Rocco Forte Hotels

  • Vikram Chatwal is an American hotelier and actor.

    Vikram Chatwal

  • Francis Brennan is an Irish television personality and former hotelier.

    Francis Brennan (hotelier)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.