plum spot
- noun
- /plʌm spɑt/
:
lugar privilegiado
- For summer vacations, the beach house is my family’s favorite plum spot.
Examples
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The new coffee shop has become a plum spot for local students looking to study.
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She secured a plum spot in the competition after impressing the judges with her performance.
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The construction site occupied one half of the area of an undeveloped oasis near the 61st Street express stop, also a plum spot on the Long Island Railroad, the last stop before Manhattan.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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4.4
The best point where something works well
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4.0
A popular place where many people go to have fun
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3.7
A very good place in a town where people want to live or work
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4.1
A place people prefer for a certain activity
A good spot to see or hear something
How Desirable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a highly desirable location' is directly derivable from combining 'plum' (a desirable thing/assignment) with 'spot' (a location); the compound simply attributes desirability to a place. A B1 learner who knows the extended sense of 'plum' and the noun 'spot' would readily infer this meaning, so the expression is compositional and predictable.
Etymology
Plum spot may come from thinking of a ripe plum as a sweet, valuable thing and spot as a place, so people pictured a place as being as good as a plum everyone wants. So a plum spot means a 'highly desirable' place.