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hotelman

American  
[hoh-tel-muhn, -man] / hoʊˈtɛl mən, -ˌmæn /

noun

plural

hotelmen
  1. hotelkeeper.


Etymology

Origin of hotelman

First recorded in 1915–20; hotel + man

Example Sentences

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The deal that gave him the greatest satisfaction and made him the nation's leading hotelman came when he made the Waldorf-Astoria a Hilton hotel in 1949.

From Time Magazine Archive

In deal No. 4, he bought Fort Worth's Terminal Hotel with two partners and learned that there were more dangers for a hotelman than the complaints of dissatisfied guests.

From Time Magazine Archive

Western Hills was conceived by Fort Worth Manufacturer Hank Green, a onetime hotelman, who persuaded his brother and three friends to put up $400,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Herbert Shipman, widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, is offering to any hotelman who can pay for it the sprawling Cliff Walk estate built by her late, famed father, Edson Bradley.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Kite as a hotelman was a new one on me.

From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by MacGowan, Alice