temperance hotel

Spanish translation: hotel modesto

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English term or phrase:temperance hotel
Spanish translation:hotel modesto

10:36 Jun 21, 2002
English to Spanish translations [Non-PRO]
Architecture / Architecture
English term or phrase: temperance hotel
Since 1990 the upper floors have been furnished to illustrate the use of the building, from its origins as a merchant's house to the period when it was a temperance hotel.
F�tima Aranzabal Ramos
hotel sobrio, moderado, modesto.
Explanation:
Hi Fátima
el adjetivo "temperance" significa sobriedad, y "temperateness" es moderación.
Ref. Appletons Cuyas Dic.

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Estoy equivocada, la respuesta de Circe es la correcta.
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Marisol Valenzuela-Dillen
Local time: 17:45
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3Hotel en el cual está prohibido el consumo de alcohol
Circe
5hotel sobrio, moderado, modesto.
Marisol Valenzuela-Dillen
4"hotel, donde no se sirvan bebidas alcohólicas"
Сергей Лузан
4hotel en contra del alcoholismo
two2tango
4respetar la sobriedad del hotel
chipic (X)


  

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Hotel en el cual está prohibido el consumo de alcohol


Explanation:
http://www.wordreference.com/English/definition.asp?en=tempe...

temperance [tmprns]
2. abstinence from alcoholic drink.
[from Latin temperantia, from temperare to regulate]

Saludos. :o)

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http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=tem...

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temperance
1 (n)
(teetotalism) abstinencia f;
2 (cpd)
(movement, hotel) antialcohólico/a;



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Con todos mis respetos, ¿cuál es su criterio para escoger la respuesta ganadora?

Circe
Spain
Local time: 07:45

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sebastian Lopez
6 mins
  -> Gracias Sebastián :o)

agree  Marisol Valenzuela-Dillen: tu respuesta es la correcta.
8 mins
  -> Gracias Marisol :o)

agree  LoreAC (X)
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  -> Gracias Loreac :o)
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
hotel sobrio, moderado, modesto.


Explanation:
Hi Fátima
el adjetivo "temperance" significa sobriedad, y "temperateness" es moderación.
Ref. Appletons Cuyas Dic.

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Note added at 2002-06-21 10:58:08 (GMT)
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Estoy equivocada, la respuesta de Circe es la correcta.
:-(

Marisol Valenzuela-Dillen
Local time: 17:45
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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"hotel, donde no se sirvan bebidas alcohólicas"


Explanation:
Lieralmente de 3. Collins Spanish Dictionary, ISBN 0-00-470-295-6

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¢®Buena suerte, F¬Òtima Aranzabal Ramos!

Сергей Лузан
Russian Federation
Local time: 08:45
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hotel en contra del alcoholismo


Explanation:
"Social Sciences - Society - social policy (rf: Ethnology & Folklore, see: HI; Religion, see: RP)"(=SO)



(1)
ABBREV WWCTU
(2)
TERM World's Women's Christian Temperance Union



(1)
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Note {NTE} Unión Mundial de Mujeres Cristianas contra el Alcoholismo




    Reference: http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller
two2tango
Argentina
Local time: 02:45
Native speaker of: Spanish
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respetar la sobriedad del hotel


Explanation:
no cre que tenga que ver con la admision i no de alcohol sino de respetar la sobria deocracion anterior del hotel

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