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HOT SPRINGS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town in west central Arkansas; a health resort noted for thermal springs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Hot Springs" is a part of...):
AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity (a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Context examples:
Martin had learned the contrivance from Joe at the Shelly Hot Springs.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"Then they never worked in the laundry at Shelly Hot Springs," he laughed bitterly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Not since with Joe, at Shelly Hot Springs, with the one exception of the wine he took with the Portuguese grocer, had Martin had a drink at a public bar.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He felt much in the same way that he would have felt had the Shelly Hot Springs Laundry suddenly invaded the Hotel Metropole with a whole week's washing ready for him to pitch into.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I knew now why her face was familiar—its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
