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SPA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spa mean?
• SPA (noun)
The noun SPA has 3 senses:
1. a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
2. a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area
3. a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness
Familiarity information: SPA used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A health resort near a spring or at the seaside
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
spa; watering hole; watering place
Hypernyms ("spa" is a kind of...):
playground; resort area; vacation spot (an area where many people go for recreation)
Meronyms (parts of "spa"):
pump room (a pump house at a spa where medicinal waters are pumped and where patrons gather)
Instance hyponyms:
Wiesbaden (a city in western Germany; a spa since Roman times)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
resort hotel; spa
Hypernyms ("spa" is a kind of...):
hotel (a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services)
Holonyms ("spa" is a part of...):
playground; resort area; vacation spot (an area where many people go for recreation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
health club; health spa; spa
Hypernyms ("spa" is a kind of...):
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spa"):
fat farm (a health spa that specializes in helping people lose weight)
Context examples
If you can’t travel, you might enjoy booking a luxurious treatment at the spa after work.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Both she and it reached the Rhenish spa by some circuitous route.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You can travel, visit the spa, have dinner in a special-occasion restaurant, or do anything that you would find fun.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Book an hour at the spa, for you will be craving a bit of luxury, and early January will offer you the chance to indulge.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You have a gorgeous month in store, so treat yourself to a luxury or two at the shops, and go for a treatment at the spa.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Go to the spa, have a fabulous haircut, choose new clothes, or purchase a beautiful new addition to your wardrobe.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Leo also rules fine imported chocolates, fine wines, champagne and liquors, upscale spas, yachts, private planes, expensive, custom automobiles, castles, condos, and co-ops. You get the idea.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You might want to take your children with you to a sunny location, or go alone and enjoy sleeping as long as you like, indulging in the hotel spa, and having delicious meals in the hotel.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Take advantage of Venus in this divine constellation during the first week of February to buy new things to wear, to refresh your appearance by getting a new hair style, or by having a facial or massage at the spa.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Once Mercury is out of retrograde, March 9, spend a little money on yourself—go to the salon or barbershop for a classy haircut, choose a treatment at the spa, or choose some new clothes for the coming season.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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