Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kurort

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kurort
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A health resort, especially one in a German-speaking country or in the area of the former Soviet Union.

Example Sentences

"[…] how rotten it must be for her to be shut up in a potty little German kur-ort when the world could be so otherwise amusing […]"
"‘And she loved inventing some rare illness and going to some famous kurort […].’"
"[…] the Soviet Union. They are known as kurorts and emphasize physical medicine for the most part. In 1965 there were 500 of these kurorts with over 2,000 sanitoria and over 8,000,000 people visited these spas, […]"
"“In the old days the kurorts were only for company employees,” she explained, using the Russian term for the resorts"

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kurort, in some cases via Russian куро́рт (kurórt).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Kurort, куро́рт

Inflected Forms

kurorts (plural)

Questions

What does kurort mean?: A health resort, especially one in a German-speaking country or in the area of the former Soviet Union.
Where does kurort come from?: It is traced to German.

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