sauna

Meaning

Noun

1. A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
2. The act of using a sauna.
3. A public sauna.
4. 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.
5. (informal) A very hot place or room.

Verb

To use a sauna.

Synonyms

sweat room

bathhouse

sweathouse

sudatory

sudatorium

bath

🛀

take a sauna

shower

🚿

steambath

steam bath

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɔː.nə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish sauna. Doublet of stack.