Hotel rowing team has stature (6)
I believe the answer is:
height
'stature' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'hotel rowing team' is the wordplay.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet).
'rowing team' becomes 'eight' (eight rowers).
'h'+'eight'='HEIGHT'
'has' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for height that I've seen before include "part of a patient's statistics?" , "Dimension upwards" , "Rising ground; extreme example" , "Stature" , "Distance form top to bottom" .)