solarium

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: so=lar=i=um

CIDE DICTIONARY

solarium, n. [L. See Solar, n.].

•  An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

solarium, n. (pl. solaria) a room equipped with sun-lamps or fitted with extensive areas of glass for exposure to the sun.

Etymology

L, = sundial, sunning-place (as SOLAR)

THESAURUS

solarium

best room, drawing room, foreroom, front room, gallery, lanai, living room, parlor, patio, piazza, porch, salon, saloon, sitting room, sleeping porch, stoop, sun parlor, sun porch, sunroom, veranda