Meaning

2 senses

  1. A (Japanese) hot spring.

    The hottest springs in Japan aren't in the north but at the Obama Onsen outside Nagasaki.

    Onsen

    онсэ́нonsɛ́n, онсе́нonsɛ́n

    онсе́нonsén

  2. A Japanese-style resort hotel at a natural hot spring, offering on-site bathing.

    We stayed at a traditional onsen with tatami, yukata, and kaiseki at Onyang outside Seoul.

Examples

5 sentences

  1. I like onsen off the beaten track.

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  2. It's a souvenir onsen egg.

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  3. The Japanese onsen is a nice place for skinny-dipping.

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  4. I can't afford to go to the onsen this weekend. I'm broke.

    deIch kann es mir nicht leisten, dieses Wochenende zum Onsen zu fahren. Ich bin pleite.

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  5. What a surprise! The onsen lodge had turned into a fish breeding farm.

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Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a Japanese hot spring; a Japanese-style resort hotel at a hot spring:
Русский
By meaning 1
a Japanese hot spring; a Japanese-style resort hotel at a hot spring:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a Japanese hot spring; a Japanese-style resort hotel at a hot spring:

Origin

From Japanese 温泉 (onsen), from Middle Chinese 溫泉 ('won dzjwen, “hot springs”), from 溫 /温 (

From Japanese 温泉 (onsen), from Middle Chinese 溫泉 ('won dzjwen, “hot springs”), from 溫 /温 (wēn, “warm”) + 泉 (quán, “spring[s]”). Compare the modern Mandarin pronunciation 溫泉 /温泉 (wēnquán).

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Forms

plural: onsen / onsens
Singularonsen
Pluralonsen / onsens

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedonsen tamago

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
onlyA1onoonomatopoeiaonsetonshore
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