solarium

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  1. noun A room, gallery, or glassed-in porch exposed to the sun.

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  • She looked around the solarium, at all the plants and flowers, the miniature fruit trees and the tall grasses by the fountain. —  One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze
  • There were three of them in the huge solarium, not counting the mynah bird who was carrying on his own raucous conversation in his cage amidst the riot of green plants. —  Dan Simmons - Hardcase
  • It was part solarium, part garden, and partly an indoor formal courtyard. —  Archform: Beauty by L. E. Modessit Jr.
  • To the others he spoke sharply: "Go back to the exact positions in living room and dining room and solarium, that you occupied when Mrs. Marshall ran from the room I think you're overdoing it, Bonnie," Captain Strawn protested. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Murder at Bridge, by Anne Austin
  • I walked across the solarium, saw Polly just finishing with bridge for the afternoon, and beckoned to her. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Murder at Bridge, by Anne Austin
 

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  1. Latin sōlārium, terrace, flat housetop, from sōl, sun; see sāwel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin solarium, a sun-dial, a part of a house exposed to the sun, from solaris, of the sun: see solar.
 

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/səˈleɪriəm/
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