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Definition: Watering Place |
Watering PlaceNoun1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Watering PlaceSynonyms: spa (n), watering hole (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Watering Place |
| Etymologies containing "watering place": Abreuvoir. (references) |
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![]() | [A watering place in the railroad yard, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Eight people in front of watering place, Torreón, Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Tunis - a watering place. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "watering place"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vend me ujra termale, vend ku pinë ujë kafshët, ujore (pond), pijetore (boozer, grogshop, hotel, pothouse, pub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مورد (resource, spring, well), مرش (dredger, watering can). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | курорт с минерални бани, място за водопой, поило (watering trough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | láznì (health resort, spa, Wells). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | juottopaikka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | station balnéaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schwemme (bar, glut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ποτίστρα ζώων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | itatóhely. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | abbeveratoio (crib, drinker, drinking bowl, drinking throug, feed plan, feeder, manger, trough, water trough, waterer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | traie-valley, poyll ushtey, boayl faarkee, balley ushtey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ateringway aceplay водопой, морской курорт. (various references) pojilo (water-trough). (various references) playa (beach, foreshore, front, resort, sands, seashore, seaside, shore, strand), balneario (baths, health, health resort, spa, thermal). (various references) vattningsställe, brunnsort (health resort). (various references) водопій. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aquatio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-g-i-l-n-p-r-t-w" | |
-2 letters: paragenetic, praelecting. | |
-3 letters: altarpiece, epicentral, lacerating, penetralia, pregenital, prelecting. | |
-4 letters: analeptic, analgetic, antiglare, carpeting, cartilage, clearwing, clientage, genetical, interlace, paltering, parceling, parentage, peltering, percaline, perinatal, placating, placentae, preacting, princelet, rectangle, repealing, repeating, replacing, replating, replicate, waterline, weltering. | |
-5 letters: acierate, aerating, agenetic, agential, airplane, alerting, algerine, alginate, alienage, alienate, altering, analcite, angelica, antalgic, antirape, antiwear. | |
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