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Watering Place

Definition: Watering Place

Watering Place

Noun

1. 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 Place

Synonyms: spa (n), watering hole (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Watering Place

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Watering Place

Etymologies containing "watering place": Abreuvoir. (references)

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Photo Album: Watering Place

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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.

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Modern Translation: Watering Place

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

   

Russian 

  

водопой, морской курорт. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pojilo (water-trough). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

playa (beach, foreshore, front, resort, sands, seashore, seaside, shore, strand), balneario (baths, health, health resort, spa, thermal). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vattningsställe, brunnsort (health resort). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

водопій. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Watering Place

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

aquatio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Watering Place

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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