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noun

a room at a spa for drinking mineral waters.

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Origin of pump room

First recorded in 1735–45

Words nearby pump room

pumpkin head, pumpkinseed, pumpkin spice, pumpman, pump priming, pump room, pump up, pun, puna, Punakha, Punan

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How to use pump room in a sentence

Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
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Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
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One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.
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Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
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The resources were what you might expect: Dining room, a media center, a library, a TV room, a meeting room, a computer room.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
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When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.
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British Dictionary definitions for pump room

pump room

noun

a building or room at a spa in which the water from a mineral spring may be drunk

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