<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A commercial establishment offering lodging to travelers and sometimes to permanent residents, and often having restaurants, meeting rooms, stores, etc., that are available to the general public.</li><li>Synonyms: motel, guesthouse, hostel, hostelry.</li><li>A word used in communications to represent the letter H.</li><li>(Military) the NATO name for a class of nuclear-powered Soviet submarines armed with single-warhead ballistic missiles, in service with the Soviet Navy 1959–91.</li></ul>