4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

spa

noun

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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

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

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 Software Publishers Association (org., USA)
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