spot

Pronunciation: /spɑt/

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a point located with respect to surface features of some region
  2. noun a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
  3. noun an outstanding characteristic

Etymology

From Middle English spot, spotte, partially from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partially merging with Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Cognate with North Frisian spot (“speck, piece of ground”), Low German spot (“speck”), Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). See also splot, splotch.

In classic literature

Synonyms

topographic point, place

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
point
Narrower (hyponyms)
pool, polling place, end, grave, nesting place, zone

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