Solarium

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Solarium \So*la"ri*um\, n.; pl. {Solaria}. [L. See {Solar}, n.]
     1. 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]


  
     2. (Zool.) 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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  solarium
       n : a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to
           the sun [syn: {sun parlor}, {sun parlour}, {sun porch}, {sunroom},
            {sun lounge}]
       [also: {solaria} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "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