Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Floatel’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary

Floatel (also flotel)

Noun

Definition: A floating hotel, especially a boat used as a hotel.

Examples:

• An accommodation vessel for workers on an offshore oil rig.

• The skies over the floating accommodation platform, known as a floatel, were buzzing with 14 circling rescue helicopters from oil supply companies, HM Coastguard, the Navy and RAF.

• Built as an oil rig and then, at the last minute, changed into a floatel, the platform is a floating hotel for people working out to sea on oil and gas fields.

Origin:

1950s: blend of float and hotel; compare with boatel.

Published in Dawn, Young World, May 14th, 2015