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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun [syn: sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunporch, sunroom, sun lounge, solarium]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural solaria; also -ums) Etymology: Latin, porch exposed to the sun, from sol Date: circa 1823 a glass-enclosed porch or room; also a room (as in a hospital) used especially for sunbathing or therapeutic exposure to light

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. solaria) a room equipped with sun-lamps or fitted with extensive areas of glass for exposure to the sun. Etymology: L, = sundial, sunning-place (as SOLAR)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(solariums) A solarium is a place equipped with special lamps, where you can go to get an artificial suntan. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

best room, drawing room, foreroom, front room, gallery, lanai, living room, parlor, patio, piazza, porch, salon, saloon, sitting room, sleeping porch, stoop, sun parlor, sun porch, sunroom, veranda