Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An institution for the treatment of chronic diseases or for medically supervised recuperation.
- noun A resort for improvement or maintenance of health, especially for convalescents.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place to which people go for the sake of health; a locality to which people resort to regain health; also, a house, hotel, or medical institution in such a locality, designed to accommodate invalids: specifically applied to military stations on the mountains or tablelands of tropical countries, with climates suited to the health of Europeans.
- noun A hospital, usually a private hospital for the treatment of patients who are not beyond the hope of cure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See
sanitarium .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
institution that treatschronic diseases , and providessupervised recuperation andconvalescence
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases
- noun pejorative terms for an insane asylum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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December 2nd, 2009 Golfer TIGER WOODS has escaped rapist charges following a single-vehicle accident, which landed him in sanatorium upon Friday (27Nov09).
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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December 2nd, 2009 Golfer TIGER WOODS has escaped rapist charges following a single-vehicle accident, which landed him in sanatorium upon Friday (27Nov09).
Woods Mistress Apologises To Wife admin 2009
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Thus he called his sanatorium in Kent "The Confessional," and his methods, there, followed pretty closely the methods of the mediæval
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At that rate, experts say, the return of the sanatorium is a real possibility in some cities.
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The front of the sanatorium was an old villa with turrets and a stained-glass window above the carved door, but its back was a concrete addition with recessed windows too small for anyone to squeeze through.
Floating in My Mother’s Palm Ursula Hegi 1990
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The front of the sanatorium was an old villa with turrets and a stained-glass window above the carved door, but its back was a concrete addition with recessed windows too small for anyone to squeeze through.
Floating in My Mother’s Palm Ursula Hegi 1990
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I let the motor skim along at a good rate, and wasn't long in bringing the bunch to the place I had thought of, which happens to be a small, private sanatorium, which isn't known to be one at all, save by those who patronize it and who want to put their loved ones away for a time, secretly.
The Last Woman Ross Beeckman
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I said that a sanatorium was a place where the man who runs it can't afford to have likes and dislikes; that for my part I'd a good deal rather he'd get rid of his excitement by shooting off a gun, provided he pointed it away from the house, than to sit around and let his mind explode and kill all our prospects.
Where there's a Will 1912
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You see the sanatorium was a mighty fine piece of property, with a deer park and golf links.
Where there's a Will 1912
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The attendant who was with me most of the time while I remained at the sanatorium was the kindly one already mentioned.
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909
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