attractions

7 definitions • 10 examples

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.

the feeling of liking someone, especially sexually, because of the way they look or behave:

She felt an immediate physical attraction to him.

a force by which things are pulled towards each other:

gravitational attraction

a quality or force of someone or something that tends to pull others in or create interest in the person or thing:

[ C ] The company’s excellent employee benefits package is a major attraction.

[ U ] Sports hold little attraction for me.

An attraction is also something that makes people want to go to a place:

[ C ] Florida has numerous tourist attractions.

Attraction is also the force of gravity (= force that makes objects fall toward earth), or the force of a magnet that pulls things toward it.

something that people come to see because they are interested in it:

The historic centre is one of the major visitor attractions of the city.