attractionnoun
uk/əˈtræk.ʃən/us/əˈtræk.ʃən/B1 [ C or U ] something that makes people want to go to a place or do a particular thing:
Life in Los Angeles has so many attractions - nightclubs, good restaurants, and so on.
tourist attractions
The opportunity to travel is one of the main attractions of this job.
Skiing holds no attraction for me.
C2 [ U ] the feeling of liking someone, especially sexually, because of the way they look or behave:
She felt an immediate physical attraction to him.
[ U ] specialized physics a force by which things are pulled towards each other:
gravitational attraction
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- This building, once derided by critics, is now a major tourist attraction.
- He's not exactly good-looking, but he has a certain attraction.
- Life in London has so many attractions - nightclubs, good restaurants and so on.
- Major tourist attractions are a soft target for pickpockets.
- Disneyworld is one of Florida's major tourist attractions.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Advantage and disadvantage
- a free ride idiom
- a stick to beat sb with idiom
- advantage
- an ace up your sleeve idiom
- be well in there idiom
- be/stay/keep one jump ahead idiom
- cash
- cash in on sth
- edge
- fish
- it's tough at the top idiom
- lock in sth
- lock sb out of sth
- lose out
- make a virtue (out) of sth idiom
- piggyback
- profit
- profit from sth
- you've got nothing to lose idiom
- your best/strongest/trump card idiom
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