hotspot
11 synonyms for hotspot, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A place where a wireless network is made available so that people nearby can get online, such as in a café, hotel or airport.
Synonyms
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
A place where a wireless network is made available so that people nearby can get online, such as in a café, hotel or airport.
“The station has a free hotspot, but you have to sign in through a web page first.”
2. noun
A feature of a phone or other mobile device that shares its mobile data connection with nearby devices over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or a cable.
“I turned on the hotspot on my phone so my laptop could get online from the train.”
3. noun general use
More generally, a place where something happens far more than elsewhere, such as an area of unusual activity, risk or interest.
“That junction is a hotspot for cyclists' near misses.”
How to use hotspot
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
Everyday. Written as one word in technical use; hot spot as two words is more common for the general sense of a busy or risky place.
Etymology
A compound of hot, in the figurative sense of intense or active, and spot, a place. The wireless sense extends the older general meaning of an area of concentrated activity.
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