Sauna

Definitions

1. A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
2. The act of using a sauna.
3. A public sauna.
4. In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse or massage parlour.
5. A very hot place or room.
   figuratively, informal

Equivalents

29 more languages

العربيةحمام البخارسَاوْنَاصُونَة

Bosanskibaštasaunaсауна

Catalàsauna

Češtinasauna

Ελληνικάατμοκαυλούατμόλουτροσάουνα

Esperantosaŭno

Eestisaun

Suomilöylysaunasaunoasaunominen+ 1 more

עבריתסאונה

Hrvatskibaštasaunaсауна

Magyarszauna

Հայերենսաունա

Íslenskabaðstofaeimbaðgufubaðsána+ 1 more

Italianosaunausare una sauna

日本語サウナサウナに入る蒸し風呂

ქართულისაუნა

한국어사우나

Kurdîsauna

Lietuviųpirtissauna

Latviešupirts

Nederlandssaunasaunaën

Polskiłaźniasauna

Portuguêsbanho de saunasaunatomar banho de sauna

Românăbaie de abur

Русскийсаунафи́нская ба́ня

Српскиbaštasaunaсауна

Svenskabada bastubadstugabastabastandebastugå i bastu+ 3 more

Türkçesauna

Українськалазнясауна

Examples

“The hotel has a sauna in the basement.”

“Of course, it will never get⟳ -100 here like⟳ it does in Antarctica, but a 300-degree swing⟳ was still theoretically possible on a record-cold Minnesota morning–if we got the sauna hot enough.”

“John had a sauna after his swim⟳.”

“Joanne went for a sauna after her swim⟳.”

“One of my favorite saunas was just one go and thirteen minutes long, including clean⟳ up time.”

“McPhail ran Maitland's brothels—knocking-shops in Maryhill, Riddrie, Dennistoun, and the more upscale saunas in the West End⟳ and city centre.”

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