| spa (spä) n. 1. A resort providing therapeutic baths. 2. A resort area having mineral springs. 3. A fashionable hotel or resort. 4. A health spa. 5. A tub for relaxation or invigoration, usually including a device for raising whirlpools in the water. 6. Eastern New England See soda fountain. [After Spa, a resort town of eastern Belgium.] Regional Note: The word spa, taken from the name of the famous mineral springs in Spa, Belgium, has become a common noun denoting any place with a medicinal or mineral spring. Less well known is its Eastern New England sense, "soda fountain," probably an allusion to the carbonated or "mineral" water that is a staple ingredient of many soda fountain concoctions. |
spa
Noun
a mineral-water spring or a resort where such a spring is found [after Spa, a watering place in Belgium]
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  spa - a health resort near a spring or at the seasidepump room - a pump house at a spa where medicinal waters are pumped and where patrons gather |
| 2. | spa - a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area hotel - a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services | |
| 3. |  spa - a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitnessfat farm - a health spa that specializes in helping people lose weight business establishment, place of business - an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered |
Translations
spa [spɑː] n (= town) → station thermale;
(US) (also: health spa) → établissement m de cure de rajeunissement
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