attraction

Meanings

1. A place or thing that draws people's interest.
2. A strong feeling of liking or being drawn to someone.
3. A force that pulls things together.

Example sentences

• "The old castle is the main attraction in the town."

  Level B1, Meaning 1

• "There was an immediate attraction between them."

  Level B2, Meaning 2

• "Magnets work by attraction."

  Level B2, Meaning 3

• "The city has many tourist attractions."

  Level A2, Meaning 1

Synonyms and antonyms

Look-alikes and common mistakes

• attractiveness : Attractiveness is the quality of looking pleasing. An attraction is a place or a pull.
• sight : A sight is something worth seeing. An attraction is something planned to be visited.

Word family and forms

Forms: attractions

Word partners

Words and phrases that often go with "attraction".

• a tourist attraction
• the main attraction
• a strong attraction
• an attraction park
• physical attraction
• the attraction of the city

Origin

Attraction came into English in the 1300s and 1400s from Anglo-French and Medieval Latin, which took it from Latin attractio. It is built from attract plus the ending -ion, and the Latin verb attrahere means to draw toward.

Checked against: Wiktionary, the free dictionary, Dictionary.com.

How to remember it

Attraction is attract plus ion. The thing that attracts you is an attraction.

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