Meaning

A room or a house designed for heat sessions..

Definitions by Sense

1. A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
2. The act of using a sauna.
3. In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse or massage parlour.
4. (informal, figuratively) A very hot place or room.
5. (intransitive) To use a sauna.

Example Sentences

The hotel has a sauna in the basement.

Of course, it will never get -100 here like it does in Antarctica, but a 300-degree swing was still theoretically possible on a record-cold Minnesota morning–if we got the sauna hot enough.

As health-conscious Americans have jumped headfirst into saunas, some Europeans have at times also found themselves a little baffled by their fellow steam lovers’ behavior, worried a millennia-old tradition is being warped by American wellness culture.

John had a sauna after his swim.

Joanne went for a sauna after her swim.

One of my favorite saunas was just one go and thirteen minutes long, including clean up time.

McPhail ran Maitland's brothels—knocking-shops in Maryhill, Riddrie, Dennistoun, and the more upscale saunas in the West End and city centre.

“I find it disgusting,” she said. “It would be a total no-no to go to a sauna in Austria with your bathing suit, and an insult to wear workout clothes.” She now saunas at home.

Word Forms

• saunas
• saunaing
• saunaed

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