Spa

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spa \Spa\ (?; 277), n.
     A spring or mineral water; -- so called from a place of this
     name in Belgium.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  spa
       n 1: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn: {watering
            place}, {watering hole}]
       2: a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: {resort
          hotel}]
       3: a place of business with equipment and facilities for
          exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: {health
          spa}, {health club}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "spa":
     bagnio, balneae, balneum, bath, bathhouse, bathroom, baths,
     caldarium, casino, club, clubhouse, gambling house,
     gathering place, hangout, haunt, health resort, hot spring,
     lavatory, meeting place, mikvah, mineral spring, public baths,
     pump house, pump room, purlieu, rallying point, resort, rest room,
     sauna, springs, stamping ground, steam room, sudarium, sudatorium,
     sweat room, tepidarium, thermae, washroom, watering place,
     waters
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SPA
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