SANATORIUM

Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit

(noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum

sanatorium, sanatarium, sanitarium

(noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sanatorium (plural sanatoriums or sanatoria)

An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.

Source: Wiktionary


San`a*to"ri*um, n. Etym: [NL. See Sanatory.]

Definition: An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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