Meaning of Solarium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A room, rooftop, balcony, or terrace, used for its abundant sunlight, especially when used as a medical treatment.
   Canada, US
2. A large monument in ancient Rome and its modern ruins.
3. Synonym of tanning salon, a room or business used for its sunlamps or tanning beds.
   UK
4. A former constellation located between the constellations of Horologium, Dorado, and Hydrus
   historical
5. An earthen structure constructed by certain ants for the purpose of brood incubation.
6. Synonym of sundial.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“My brother kept a health-lift a few years ago... and then he had a blue-glass solarium.”

“The solariums on the roofs of the houses of the ancient Greeks and Romans testify to the benefits obtained by them from sun baths.”

“The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.”

“[…] this solarium being made for a different meridian […]”

“[…] lifting his eyes from the solarium set under the aplustre for reference in keeping the course...”

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