natatorium
Americannoun
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natatoriums,
plural
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natatoria
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of natatorium
1885–90; < Late Latin natātōrium swimming place, equivalent to Latin natā ( re ) to swim + -tōrium -tory 2
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By then, Angelenos of means were building their own swimming pools and Jacuzzis, and they no longer needed a civic natatorium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
Wisconsin’s boxers work out in a humid room lined with heavy bags—but without a boxing ring—in the school’s natatorium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2015
But by episode’s end he had thwarted Scottie’s attempted murder and retrieved her from a particularly sinister natatorium, so things are looking up.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2015
It spent $40 billion on the games, erecting iconic venues like the Bird's Nest stadium and the Water Cube natatorium and staging a grandiose opening ceremony.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2012
We barreled into the hallways behind the gym, through the locker rooms, and into the connected natatorium.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Subterranean natatoria: A peek at some of New York City’s private pools.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2022
I’d grown up swimming and had spent my share of weekends camped out in stifling, chlorinated natatoriums.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
Air quality inside natatoriums relies on water quality.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2012
From the start, Zegna has been an uncommonly paternalistic company, erecting schools, gymnasiums, natatoriums, hospitals and "green" zones around its mills.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2010
Their rivers are icy cold, their villages do not afford heated natatoriums.
From The Sky Line of Spruce by Edison Marshall
Men who swim exceedingly well are not those who have taken courses in the theory of swimming at natatoriums from professors of the amphibian art—they were boys who just jumped in.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
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