love hotel
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love hotel
Where it comes from
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.
noun love hotels
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A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.
Love hotels differ in terms of price (from about $30 per hour and up), decoration (some may offer features such as sex swings, hot tubs, or round beds, and many are themed), and architecture […].
Similar: autohotel, fast sheet, hot-sheet motel, love hotel, maison de passe, no-tell hotel, no-tell motel, motel
Translations
Every language
noun short-stay hotel for sex
| Español | albergue transitorio, telo, hotel del amor |
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| 한국어 | 러브호텔 reobeuhotel |
| 日本語 | ラブホテル rabu hoteru, ラブホ rabuho, 連れ込み宿 tsurekomiyado, ブティックホテル butikku hoteru, ファッションホテル fasshon hoteru |
| 中文 | 情侶酒店 /情侣酒店 qínglǚ jiǔdiàn, 愛情旅館 /爱情旅馆 àiqíng lǚguǎn, 情人旅館 /情人旅馆 qíngrén lǚguǎn, 鐘點房 /钟点房 zhōngdiǎnfáng |
| हिन्दी | लव होटल lav hoṭal, प्यार होटल pyār hoṭal |
| Português | motel |
| Français | love hotel |
| Deutsch | Love Hotel |
| Русский | любо́вный оте́ль ljubóvnyj otɛ́lʹ, мини-гости́ница mini-gostínica, гости́ница с почасово́й опла́той gostínica s počasovój oplátoj, гости́ница на час gostínica na čas, оте́ль любви́ otɛ́lʹ ljubví |
| العربية | فُنْدُقُ الحُبّ funduqu l-ḥubb |
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@misc{love_hotel_2026,
title = {love hotel},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/love%20hotel},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
