eco-hotel

noun

plural eco-hotels

: a hotel with features and services designed not to be harmful to the environment

For the politically correct couple, this brand-new eco-hotel—south of Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific coast—offers a guilt-free honeymoon. Everything is recycled; the water is solar-heated, the produce organic.

—Richard Alleman, Vogue, June 1998

Word History

First Known Use

1993, in the meaning defined above

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