capsule hotel

English

Inside a capsule hotel.

Etymology

Calque of Japanese カプセルホテル (kapuseru hoteru).

Noun

capsule hotel (plural capsule hotels)

1. A type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).
   • 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     "In there?" Yamazaki indicates what he takes to be another door, like the entrance to a hutch, curtained with a soiled square of melon-yellow, foam-cored blanket, the sort of blanket one finds in a capsule hotel.

Synonyms

• pod hotel

Translations

hotel with capsules

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膠囊酒店 / 胶囊酒店 (jiāonáng jiǔdiàn), 膠囊旅館 / 胶囊旅馆 (jiāonáng lǚguǎn)

• Finnish: kapselihotelli
• French: hôtel capsule (fr) m
• German: Kapselhotel n
• Japanese: カプセルホテル (kapuseruhoteru)
• Korean: 캡슐 호텔 (kaepsyul hotel)
• Portuguese: hotel-cápsula m, hotel cápsula m
• Russian: ка́псульный оте́ль m (kápsulʹnyj otɛ́lʹ)
• Spanish: hotel cápsula m
• Swedish: kapselhotell n