spa
pronunciation
How to pronounce spa in British English:
UK [spɑ:]
How to pronounce spa in American English:
US [spɑ]
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- Noun:
- a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
- a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area
- a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness
Word Origin
- spa
- spa: [17] The town of Spa, in eastern Belgium, has medicinal mineral springs. They were discovered in the 14th century, and by the early 17th century were well enough known in Britain for the town’s name to be used as a generic term for ‘medicinal springs’. The present-day application to a ‘town containing such springs’ emerged towards the end of the 18th century.
- spa (n.)
- "medicinal or mineral spring," 1620s, from the name of the health resort in eastern Belgium, known since 14c., that features mineral springs believed to have curative properties. The place name is from Walloon espa "spring, fountain." As "commercial establishment offering health and beauty treatments," 1960.
Example
- 1. I do not see how the spa could have survived the tsunami .
- 2. You should go to a spa or go shopping .
- 3. The world 's rich want more spa treatments and fine dining .
- 4. Within a few years a train full of atlantic city 's first spa guests arrived .
- 5. Third place in the belgian grand prix at spa is the highlight of his final season with benetton .