sanitarium

[ san-i-tair-ee-uhm ]

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noun,plural san·i·tar·i·ums, san·i·tar·i·a

[san-i-tair-ee-uh]. /ˌsæn ɪˈtɛər i ə/.

an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.

Origin of sanitarium

1850–55; <Latin sānit(ās) health (see sanity) + -ārium-ary

Also sanatorium.

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How to use sanitarium in a sentence

I never made it all the way through the novel’s saga of Hans Castorp’s stay in a sanitarium for patients seeking treatment for tuberculosis.
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One such home, in the city of Sochi, used to be a sanitarium.
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Then I began to tell people at the sanitarium and wired my friends in Berlin advising them how to get out of Germany.
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But I was comforted by the fact that though there were plenty of wealthy men in our sanitarium, they were all in the same box.
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The other letter was addressed to the doctor at the sanitarium.
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The official-looking letter was from a sanitarium in Indiana.
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The question was, how soon must she leave the sanitarium and how proceed?
Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman | Emma Speed Sampson

British Dictionary definitions for sanitarium

sanitarium

/ (ˌsænɪˈtɛərɪəm) /

nounplural -riums or -ria (-rɪə)

the US spelling of sanatorium

Origin of sanitarium

C19: from Latin sānitās health

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