sanitarium
noun
an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.
sanitaria
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pluralof sanitarium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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There are many sanitaria on the Continent and in America where this form of "bathing" is practised.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
The Greeks built combination temples and sanitaria, to which the afflicted resorted.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
For the sake of the good opinion society would maintain of itself, it sends the latter nowadays to hospitals, sanitaria, or their equivalents, where protection for itself without punishment for them may be practised.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
And yet they have, within two days of sharp ride, that finest of sanitaria, the Hismá, which extends as far north and south as they please to go.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
A similar disregard for drainage has ingeniously managed to convert into pest-houses Simla and other Himalayan sanitaria.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
