ATTRACTION | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

attraction

noun

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 ]   physics   specialized

a force by which things are pulled towards each other:

gravitational attraction

More examples

• 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.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Visiting

• beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
• been
• call
• call (in) on sb
• call by
• check sth out
• come round
• haunt
• homestay
• house-to-house
• look around (somewhere/sth)
• look in
• pay
• pop
• stop
• stop in
• stop off somewhere
• stop over
• swing by/past (sth)
• visit with sb

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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Advantage and disadvantage

Attracting and tempting

Physics: energy, force & power

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(Definition of attraction from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

attraction | American Dictionary

attraction

noun [ C/U ]

us /əˈtræk·ʃən/

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.

physics

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.

(Definition of attraction from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

attraction | Business English

attraction

noun [ C ]

uk /əˈtrækʃən/ us

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.

See also

tourist attraction