health spa
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- noun
- /hɛlθ spɑ/
:
spa de salud
- After a stressful week, she decided to visit a health spa for some pampering and rejuvenation.
- go to a health spa
- visit to a health spa
- health spa and hotel
Examples
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The new health spa downtown offers fitness classes and wellness programs for all ages.
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Canyon Ranch is a health spa and it's a very nice place.
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I had a job, even though I was a mop boy in a health spa.
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She teaches jazzercise at a fancy new health spa.
Fiction book (1990) -
I am at a health spa in Southern California, a place where wealthy older women go to rest and rejuvenate, where young matrons snap their bodies back into shape after pregnancies, and where movie stars stretch out on massage tables in private Japanese gardens, offering their smooth backs to the sun.
Fiction book (1999) -
My parents enjoyed a relaxing weekend at a luxurious health spa with a pool and sauna.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where people relax and get treatments like massages
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A place where people go to exercise and join fitness classes
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A hotel where guests have mineral or hot baths for health
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place for exercise, relaxation and health treatments' is directly derivable from combining 'health' (state of being free from illness) with 'spa' (a facility for relaxation and treatments). This noun-noun composition follows a regular English pattern and is cross-linguistically common, so B1 learners who know both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun health spa comes from the town of Spa in Belgium, where people long ago visited warm springs that were said to make them well. So health spa joins health and spa and now means a place to relax, get treatments, or 'improve your health'.