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HOT SPRINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hot Springs mean? 

HOT SPRINGS (noun)
  The noun HOT SPRINGS has 1 sense:

1. a town in west central Arkansas; a health resort noted for thermal springsplay

  Familiarity information: HOT SPRINGS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOT SPRINGS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in west central Arkansas; a health resort noted for thermal springs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Hot Springs" is a part of...):

AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity (a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)


 Context examples 


"D'ye remember that time we parted at the Hot Springs?" the other was saying.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"This lineage has an amazing evolutionary history and the algae now thrive in a much more diverse environment than hot springs."

(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)

This may have implications for an origin of life in freshwater hot springs on land, rather than the more widely discussed idea that life developed in the ocean and adapted to land later.

(First Life Ever on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The microbes may be distantly related to the arsenic-breathing microbes found in hot springs and in certain contaminated sites on land.

(Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean, National Science Foundation)

This is a small laundry, up country, belongs to Shelly Hot Springs,—hotel, you know.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Our exciting findings don't just extend back the record of life living in hot springs by 3 billion years, they indicate that life was inhabiting the land much earlier than previously thought, by up to about 580 million years, said study first author, UNSW PhD candidate, Tara Djokic.

(First Life Ever on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It would have been easier had the intrusion been the Shelly Hot Springs laundry.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He would send his trunk up to Shelly Hot Springs on Joe's ticket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He arrived at Shelly Hot Springs, tired and dusty, on Sunday night.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Remember, Joe, you're to run the laundry according to those old rules you used to lay down at Shelly Hot Springs," he said.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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