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sanatorium

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • săn′ə-tôr′ē-əm
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌsæn.əˈtɔːɹ.iː.əm/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌsan.əˈtɔːɹ.iː.əm/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, General-American: /ˌsæn.əˈtoɹ.i.əm/
  • Australian: /ˌsæn.əˈtoːɹ.iː.əm/
  • New-Zealand: /ˌsɛn.əˈtoːɹ.iː.əm/
  • Scotland: /ˌsan.əˈtoɾ.i.əm/
  • Scotland: /ˌsan.ʌˈtoɾ.i.ʌm/
  • rhymes with -ɔːɹiəm

1

noun

Meaning 1

An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

pejorative terms for an insane asylum

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, snake pit

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum

3

noun

Meaning 3

a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sanatarium, sanitarium

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: hospital, infirmary

History

Etymology

Haplology from Latin sanatus (past participle of sānō (“to cure, to heal”)) + Latin -torium. Alternatively, alteration of sanitarium influenced by words like curatorium and moratorium.

Across languages

Translations

96 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Arabic: مَصَحَّة (maṣaḥḥa) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Arabic: مصحة (maṣaḥḥa) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Armenian: առողջարան (aṙoġǰaran) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Armenian: սանատորիա (sanatoria) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Azerbaijani: sanatoriya — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Bashkir: шифахана (şifaxana) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Belarusian: санато́рый (sanatóryj) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Belarusian: здра́ўніца (zdráwnica) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Bulgarian: санато́риум (sanatórium) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Catalan: sanatori — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Chechen: здравница (zdravnica) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Chinese Mandarin: 休養所 /休养所 (xiūyǎngsuǒ) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Chinese Mandarin: 療養院 /疗养院 (liáoyǎngyuàn) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Czech: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Czech: ozdravovna — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Danish: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Dutch: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Esperanto: sanatorio — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Estonian: sanatoorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Finnish: parantola — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Finnish: sairashuone — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Finnish: sanatorio — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • French: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Georgian: სანატორიუმი (sanaṭoriumi) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • German: Sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Greek: σανατόριο (sanatório) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Greek: θεραπευτήριο (therapeftírio) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Hebrew: סָנָטוֹרְיוּם (sanatorium) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Hindi: आरोग्यआश्रम (ārogyaāśram) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Hindi: आरोग्य-शाला (ārogya-śālā) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Hindi: सेहतगाह (sehatgāh) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Hungarian: szanatórium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Icelandic: heilsuhæli — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Indonesian: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Italian: sanatorio — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Japanese: 療養所 (ryōyōsho) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Japanese: サナトリウム (sanatoriumu) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Japanese: 保養院 (hoyōin) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Kazakh: шипажай (şipajai) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Khmer: អនាម័យដ្ឋាន (ʼaʼnaamaythaan) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Korean: 요양소 (yoyangso) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Korean: 료양소 (ryoyangso) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Korean: 요양원 (yoyang'won) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Korean: 휴양소 (hyuyangso) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Korean: 새너토리엄 (saeneotorieom) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Northern Kurdish: sanatoryûm — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Kyrgyz: санаторий (sanatoriy) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Lao: ສະຖານທີ່ອະນາໄມ (sa thān thī ʼa nā mai) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Latvian: sanatorija — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Lithuanian: sanatorija — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Macedonian: санато́риум (sanatórium) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Macedonian: лекувалиште (lekuvalište) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Malay: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Māori: whare tūroro — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Mongolian: сувилал (suvilal) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Mongolian: сувиллын газар (suvillyn gazar) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Pashto: سناتوريم (sanātoryam) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Persian: آسایشگاه (âsâyešgâh) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Piedmontese: sanatòri — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Polish: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Portuguese: sanatório — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Russian: санато́рий (sanatórij) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Russian: здра́вница (zdrávnica) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Serbo-Croatian: сана̀то̄рӣј — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Serbo-Croatian: лѐчилӣште — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Serbo-Croatian: љѐчилӣште — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Serbo-Croatian: sanàtōrīj — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Serbo-Croatian: lèčilīšte — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Serbo-Croatian: ljèčilīšte — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Slovak: sanatórium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Slovak: ozdravovňa — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Slovene: sanatorij — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Southern Altai: санаторий (sanatoriy) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Spanish: sanatorio — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Swedish: sanatorium — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Tagalog: pagalingan — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Tajik: санатория (sanatoriya) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Tajik: шифохона (šifoxona) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Tatar: шифаханә (şifaxanä) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Tatar: санаторий (sanatoriy) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Thai: สถานพักฟื้น — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Thai: สถานส่งเสริมสุขภาพ — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Turkish: sanatoryum — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Turkmen: şypahana — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Ukrainian: санато́рій (sanatórij) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Ukrainian: оздоро́вниця (ozdoróvnycja) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Ukrainian: здра́вниця (zdrávnycja) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Urdu: سینِٹورِیَم (seniṭoriyam) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Uyghur: ساناتورىيە (sanatoriye) — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Uzbek: sanatoriy — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Uzbek: shifoxona — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Welsh: iechydfa — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
  • Welsh: sanatoriwm — institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
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