hot spot
9
3.7
- noun
- /hɑt spɑt/
:
lugar de moda
- The new café quickly became a local hot spot for college students after it opened last month.
- a popular hot spot
- a trendy hot spot
- a local hot spot
So in LA, all the musicians, it was such a hot spot.
- So in LA, all the musicians, it was such a hot spot.
Examples
-
South Beach had become the latest hot spot for fashion shoots.
Fiction book (1993) -
Don't be put off if a bouncer asks you to wait outside to enter this swanky underground hot spot for luxury libations.
Blog text (18) -
And his store became the hot spot!
-
As mentioned in the title, Google+ is the social media hot spot.
Blog text (8) -
Miami had become a real international hot spot, a center for culture.
Fiction book (1993) -
My uncle knows all the hot spots of the city, on the strip and off, and showed us a really good time.
Blog text (5) -
Over the years, it has become a gathering place and a hot spot for all things gaming.
Blog text (1) -
Babbitt's is a popular hot spot with single, young professionals.
-
If you want to get cultured, may we suggest this European hot spot for your next getaway?
Blog text (7) -
In particular, I noticed that Myspace (mid to late 2000s) was a hot spot for social interactions.
Blog text (14)
Synonyms
18
4.0
A popular place where many people go to have fun
5
3.5
A busy place popular for eating, music, and meeting people
4
3.6
A place open late for music, dancing, food and drinks
2
1.5
A place that many people like to visit
1
2.4
A place in an area that local people like to visit
Antonyms
How Popular
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'hot' (active, popular) + 'spot' (place) yield a plausible meaning of a popular or active location, but the specific technological sense 'place or device providing Wi‑Fi' is a conventionalized, somewhat specialized extension that a B1 learner would not reliably derive from the parts alone. Many languages borrow the term 'hotspot' for Wi‑Fi, which can aid recognition, but the leap to the technical internet-access sense remains only partially predictable.
Etymology
Hot spot comes from using hot to mean fashionable or exciting and spot for place, giving the image of a warm, busy location, so it means 'a place popular for entertainment or nightlife'.