{
  "id": "hotel.lodging",
  "term": "hotel",
  "sense": "lodging",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place that has rooms and services so that people can remain there for time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "services.economic",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "people.social",
      "persist.continue",
      "rooms.space",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the place structure provides rooms and services that allow people to persist there across time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "overnight stay capability",
      "guest privacy within shared structure",
      "temporal lodging arrangement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hotel del Coronado in California has hosted guests continuously since 1888, operating through seasonal cycles and economic shifts.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Tokyo's Capsule Inn Shinjuku packs 30 square meters into 36 stacked micro-rooms, each with ventilation and lighting, serving hourly stays.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The annual revenue of the Waldorf Astoria New York exceeds $120 million, funded by room bookings, dining, and event services.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "space.extent",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "hotel",
    "hotels"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete—omitted core constituents like people, time, rooms, and persistence. Components updated to match what the definition implicitly relies on. Definition retained as is"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hotel.lodging"
}