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Resort vs Spa - What's the difference?

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Spa is a synonym of resort.



As nouns the difference between resort and spa

is that resort is a place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment while spa is a health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.

As a verb resort

is to have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.

As a proper noun Spa is

a town located in the Belgian province of Liège, famous for its springs.

resort

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities]] such as [[lodging, lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
  • Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
    • to have resort to violence
  • * Shakespeare
    • Join with me to forbid him her resort .
  • (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
  • * Milton
    • far from all resort of mirth

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
  • * Clarendon
    • The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
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  • To fall back; to revert.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.
  • To make one's way, go (to).
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:
    • The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.
    Derived terms
    * last resort

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to repeat a sorting process; sort again

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of sorting again.
  • * 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer , Volume 16:
    • "If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) ressort.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Some know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.

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    spa

    English

    (wikipedia spa)

    Etymology 1

    The term is derived from the name of the Belgian town of , where since medieval times illnesses caused by iron deficiency were treated by drinking chalybeate (iron bearing) spring water. In 16th century England the old Roman ideas of medicinal bathing were revived at towns like Bath, and in 1571 William Slingsby who had been to the Belgian town (which he called Spaw'') discovered a chalybeate spring in Yorkshire. He built an enclosed well at what became known as Harrogate, the first resort in England for drinking medicinal waters, then in 1596 Dr. Timothy Bright called the resort ''The English Spaw'', beginning the use of the word ''Spa'' as a generic description rather than as the place name of the Belgian town. At first this term referred specifically to resorts for water drinking rather than bathing, but this distinction was gradually lost and many ''spas offer external remedies. There are various stories about the origin of the name. A Belgian spring of iron bearing water was called Espa'' from the (etyl) term for "fountain", and was used in 1326 as a cure by an iron master with such success that he founded a health resort that developed into the town. It has also been suggested that the term ''Espa may be derived from the name of the resort, and that its source could be the (etyl) word spargere meaning "to scatter, sprinkle or moisten".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.
  • A trendy or fashionable resort.
  • A health club.
    • Synonyms
    * health club * resort

    See also

    * caldarium * pump room

    Etymology 2

    Shortened form of spastic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Ireland, slang) A clumsy person (see spastic)
  • (Ireland, slang) An idiot
  • (Ireland, slang) A gobshite

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