Talk:motel

Deletion debate

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1. (as a modifier; used attributively) Of or relating to a motel.

   motel sign

While the part of speech is correct, there is nothing semantically special about this, it is just regular attributive use of the primary motel sense. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 14:09, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Delete. Not adjective-like; cannot take "how...?", "very", etc. Equinox ◑ 14:13, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes, this a property of the English language as a whole, not the word motel. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:14, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Delete per nom. bd2412 T 20:20, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

• Delete the adjective entry. Purely a noun modifier. Any derived terms (?) can be entered as such under the noun entry. Donnanz 20:40, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Deleted. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:59, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

RFD discussion: April–June 2017

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motel

Owned by an establishment applies to all establishments (hotel towel, courthouse tissue box, school pencil)--Simplificationalizer (talk) 23:12, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

• Delete all senses, IMO it's not an adjective anyway, just attributive use of the noun. See also the noun, sense 2. DonnanZ (talk) 23:31, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
• Delete entire adjective PoS section per DonnanZ. DCDuring (talk) 22:11, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
  • Deleted. — SMUconlaw (talk) 18:13, 5 June 2017 (UTC)