Sheraton
Sheraton — noun
1. a brand of international hotels owned by a large US-based group, with properties
a brand of international hotels owned by a large US-based group, with properties in major cities around the world; can also refer to a single hotel of this brand.
Jin booked a room at the Sheraton in Bangkok for the conference.
the Sheraton = a specific hotel of the brand
Sheraton hotels in Asia often have business centres and swimming pools.
Sheraton hotels = plural brand reference
Quan and his family stayed at a Four Points by Sheraton during their road trip.
There is a Sheraton near the airport with a free shuttle bus for guests.
文法句型
the Sheraton
a Sheraton
Sheraton hotels
Sheraton — adjective
1. describing a type of English furniture from around 1800 that has straight lines,
describing a type of English furniture from around 1800 that has straight lines, plain surfaces, and carefully balanced proportions, often made of mahogany or satinwood.
The living room has a Sheraton sofa with straight, elegant legs.
Sheraton sofa = common collocation
Erik bought a Sheraton desk at an auction in London last spring.
Sheraton + type of furniture
Her dining table is in the Sheraton style, with simple lines and no carving.
This Sheraton chair was made in England around 1795 and still has its original finish.
- Hepplewhite
also a late-18th-century English style, but uses curved shield-shaped chair backs and tapered legs rather than Sheraton's straight lines
- Adam
an earlier neoclassical style by Robert Adam, more ornate with plaster decoration and painted panels
文法句型
Sheraton + furniture_noun
in the Sheraton style
用法筆記
Named after Thomas Sheraton (1751–1806), the English furniture designer who published detailed pattern books in the 1790s that popularised this style. Sheraton furniture is often compared with Hepplewhite and Chippendale styles of the same period — Sheraton is the most delicate, with thinner legs and less ornament.