hotelman n an owner or manager of hotels Usage(s) HOTELS The BiggestA lank, hard-bargaining hotelman named Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, longed to own something really big. Hotelman Byfield once defined the perfect hotelman as the "master of opposites. It was by equally shrewd deals that Connie Hilton had become the world's biggest hotelman. Synonym(s) hotelier hotelkeeper hotel manager hosteller