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sunroom

[ suhn-room, -room ]

noun

  1. a room designed to admit a large amount of sunlight; sun parlor or sun porch.


sunroom

/ ˈsʌnˌruːm; ˈsʌnˌrʊm /

noun

  1. a room or glass-enclosed porch designed to display beautiful views, to admit and retain the sun's heat in cool countries, and reflect it away in warm countries
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sunroom1

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25; sun + room
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Example Sentences

They have transformed the sunroom at the front of their two-story brick home in San Antonio into a museum of their dead son.

From Time

Instead, I suggested we move to our sunroom, open up all the windows and turn the fan on for air circulation.

Eventually, Weirich had to kick out her jacuzzi and plants from her sunroom, where she now holds court.

Det. 2: No, not your belt . . . . Remember being out in the sunroom, the room that sits out to the back of the house?

He obsessively reads the theology books that line the sunroom: Max Lucado, C.S Lewis, even Billy Graham.

The wild azalea filled the glassed sunroom of the Tollivers with a faint echo of the glory of the distant mountain.

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