hot spring

noun

: a spring whose water issues at a temperature higher than that of its surroundings

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Operators like Copper Canyon Tours offer hot springs visits, mountain treks, waterfalls, and cultural exchanges with local communities. Meagan Drillinger, AFAR Media, 28 Mar. 2025 The country is home to 27,000 natural hot spring sources, but a surge in tourism has left some onsen towns running low on water; leaving local officials feeling anything but zen. Chris Lau, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025 In the seventeenth century, for example, people of all classes made pilgrimages to temples and shrines, visited hot springs for health reasons, and traveled to see the sights of the country. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 23 Mar. 2025 Hot Spring Shark Attack is set in a small, hot spring town in Japan, where a ferocious ancient shark reawakens and terrorizes the local hot spring facilities. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot spring

Word History

First Known Use

1572, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hot spring was in 1572

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“Hot spring.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20spring. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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hot spring

noun
: a spring whose water flows out at a temperature higher than the average temperature of the place where the spring is located

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