Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to baths or bathing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a bath: as, “balneal heat,”
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a bath.
Etymologies
- From Latin balneum, bath; see bagnio. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In one swift flurry of motion she turns to our daughter and takes both of Miranda’s hands in hers, giggling, and mother and daughter start to spin, jumping and dancing amidst balneal waters of hope.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘balneal’.
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Logolepsy
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Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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V. Interesting Meanings
suppurate, deltiology, exonumia, vexillology, brumal, retromingent, orrery, balneal, petrichor, tarantism, obverse, pismire and 1 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "Sitting on a broad, flat stone, that he had chosen with care, Etienne was following with listless eye the reduced activity of his balneal colleagues."
Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, p 169 of the NYRB paperback Nov 7, 2010
viridian
–adj.
of or pertaining to baths or bathing. Nov 12, 2007