watering place
watering place — noun
1. A town or resort that has natural mineral springs and attracts visitors who come
A town or resort that has natural mineral springs and attracts visitors who come to drink or bathe in the water to improve their health.
Bath became a popular watering place after the Romans built baths around its hot springs.
historical reference: Bath + Roman baths
Roya's doctor recommended a visit to a German watering place to ease her joint pain.
medical purpose: doctor recommendation for joint pain
The old watering place had lost its charm after the mineral spring finally dried up.
Tomás spent six weeks at a Swiss watering place recovering from a lung infection.
In the nineteenth century, wealthy Europeans often traveled to famous watering places along the continent.
- spa
the modern, more common term; can refer to both the town and a single health facility
- health resort
broader term that includes any place people go to improve their health, not only those with mineral springs
- spa town
equivalent in meaning but more transparent; commonly used in travel writing
文法句型
watering place + [preposition] (at/in)
用法筆記
This term is now old-fashioned and less common than 'spa' or 'health resort' in modern everyday English. It appears most often in historical writing about 18th- and 19th-century travel or in literary contexts.