WATERING PLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does watering place mean? 

• WATERING PLACE (noun)
  The noun WATERING PLACE has 1 sense:

1. a health resort near a spring or at the seaside

  Familiarity information: WATERING PLACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERING PLACE (noun)

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 ("watering place" is a kind of...):

playground; resort area; vacation spot (an area where many people go for recreation)

Meronyms (parts of "watering place"):

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)