Meaning

4 senses
  1. A room or a house designed for heat sessions.

    The hotel has a sauna in the basement.

    Sauna

    са́унаsáuna, фи́нская ба́няfínskaja bánja

    са́унаsáuna, ла́зняláznja

  2. The act of using a sauna.

    John had a sauna after his swim.

    Joanne went for a sauna after her swim.

    Saunieren

  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. (figuratively, informal)A very hot place or room.

More definitions
  • a Finnish steam bath; steam is produced by pouring water over heated rocks

Examples

37 sentences
  1. Are you in the sauna?

    Ти в сауні?

    ruТы в сауне?

    deBist du in der Sauna?

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  2. Tom passed out in a sauna.

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  3. There were several old men in the sauna.

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  4. Does this hotel have a sauna?

    ruВ этой гостинице есть сауна?

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  5. Tom is in the sauna.

    ruТом в сауне.

    deTom ist in der Sauna.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
sauna room or house:
Русский
By meaning 1
sauna room or house:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
sauna room or house:
act of using a sauna:

Origin

Borrowed from Finnish sauna. Possibly a doublet of stack.

Borrowed from Finnish sauna. Possibly a doublet of stack.

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Forms

plural: saunas
Singularsauna
Pluralsaunas

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a Finnish steam bath; steam is produced by pouring water over heated rocks:sweat room

Word family

19 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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