hot spring

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   a natural spring of water at a temperature of 70 F or above

   Synonymsthermal spring

   Broaderspring

Questions about hot spring

What does hot spring mean?

hot spring means "a natural spring of water at a temperature of 70 F or above".

What is another word for hot spring?

Close synonyms include thermal spring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hot spring a common word?

hot spring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.