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so⋅lar⋅i⋅um
[suh-lair-ee-uh
m, soh-] 
–noun, plural -lar⋅i⋅ums, -lar⋅i⋅a [-lair-ee-uh] .
[-lair-ee-uh] . | a glass-enclosed room, porch, or the like, exposed to the sun's rays, as at a seaside hotel or for convalescents in a hospital. |
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| so·lar·i·um (sō-lâr'ē-əm, sə-) n. pl. so·lar·i·a (-ē-ə) or so·lar·i·ums A room, gallery, or glassed-in porch exposed to the sun. [Latin sōlārium, terrace, flat housetop, from sōl, sun; see sāwel- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Solarium
So*la"ri*um\, n.; pl. Solaria. [L. See Solar, n.]1. An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.
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solarium
1891, "part of a house exposed to the sun," earlier "sundial" (1842), from L. solarium "sundial," also "a flat housetop," lit. "that which is exposed to the sun," from sol "sun" (see sol).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: so·lar·i·um
Pronunciation: sO-'lar-E-&m, s&-, -'ler-
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural so·lar·ia /-E-&/ also -ums
: a room (as in a hospital) used especially for sunbathing or therapeutic exposure to light
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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solarium
in architecture, any room that is exposed to the sun. While the term may also be applied to the open sunporches or apartments on the roofs of ancient Greek or Roman houses, it is now used especially to designate a room that is enclosed in glass. In such a solarium, three or possibly four walls and sometimes even the ceiling may all be of glass. Often the solarium is a feature of a hospital or sanitarium, a room in which patients may be exposed to sunlight in a controlled environment as part of their therapy.
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