noun
Meaning 1
A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The hotel has a sauna in the basement.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sauna
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
The act of using a sauna.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- John had a sauna after his swim.
- Joanne went for a sauna after her swim.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A very hot place or room.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To use a sauna.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a Finnish steam bath; steam is produced by pouring water over heated rocks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sweat room
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: steam bath, steam room, vapor bath, vapour bath
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish sauna. Doublet of stack.
Across languages
Translations
99 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: سَاوْنَا (sāwnā) — sauna room or house
- Arabic: صُونَة (ṣūna) — sauna room or house
- Arabic: سَوْنة (sawna) — sauna room or house
- Arabic: سَوْنَا (sawnā) — sauna room or house
- Armenian: սաունա (sauna) — sauna room or house
- Belarusian: са́ўна (sáwna) — sauna room or house
- Bulgarian: са́уна (sáuna) — sauna room or house
- Catalan: sauna — sauna room or house
- Chinese Mandarin: 桑拿 (sāngná) — sauna room or house
- Chinese Mandarin: 桑拿浴 (sāngnáyù) — sauna room or house
- Chinese Mandarin: 三溫暖 /三温暖 (sānwēnnuǎn) — sauna room or house
- Czech: sauna — sauna room or house
- Danish: sauna — sauna room or house
- Dutch: sauna — sauna room or house
- Esperanto: saŭno — sauna room or house
- Estonian: saun — sauna room or house
- Faroese: sauna — sauna room or house
- Finnish: sauna — sauna room or house
- French: sauna — sauna room or house
- Galician: sauna — sauna room or house
- Georgian: საუნა (sauna) — sauna room or house
- German: Sauna — sauna room or house
- Greek: σάουνα (sáouna) — sauna room or house
- Greek: ατμόλουτρο (atmóloutro) — sauna room or house
- Ancient Greek: πυρία (puría) — sauna room or house
- Hebrew: סָאוּנָה (sáuna) — sauna room or house
- Hindi: सॉना (sŏnā) — sauna room or house
- Hungarian: szauna — sauna room or house
- Icelandic: sána — sauna room or house
- Icelandic: baðstofa — sauna room or house
- Icelandic: eimbað — sauna room or house
- Icelandic: gufubað — sauna room or house
- Ido: sauno — sauna room or house
- Ido: stuvo — sauna room or house
- Indonesian: sauna — sauna room or house
- Ingrian: sauna — sauna room or house
- Ingrian: kyli — sauna room or house
- Interlingua: sauna — sauna room or house
- Italian: sauna — sauna room or house
- Japanese: サウナ (sauna) — sauna room or house
- Karelian: kyly — sauna room or house
- Korean: 사우나 (sauna) — sauna room or house
- Latgalian: pierts — sauna room or house
- Latin: sūdātōrium — sauna room or house
- Latvian: pirts — sauna room or house
- Lithuanian: pirtis — sauna room or house
- Lithuanian: sauna — sauna room or house
- Māori: umuroa — sauna room or house
- Marathi: सॉना (sŏnā) — sauna room or house
- Western Mari: момоца (momoca) — sauna room or house
- Navajo: táchééh — sauna room or house
- Norwegian: badstue — sauna room or house
- Persian: سونا (sonâ) — sauna room or house
- Polish: sauna — sauna room or house
- Polish: łaźnia — sauna room or house
- Portuguese: sauna — sauna room or house
- Romanian: saună — sauna room or house
- Russian: са́уна (sáuna) — sauna room or house
- Russian: фи́нская ба́ня (fínskaja bánja) — sauna room or house
- Skolt-Sami: säu ́nn — sauna room or house
- Serbo-Croatian: sauna — sauna room or house
- Slovak: sauna — sauna room or house
- Spanish: sauna — sauna room or house
- Sudovian: pirtis — sauna room or house
- Swedish: bastu — sauna room or house
- Swedish: sauna — sauna room or house
- Thai: ซาวน่า (saaonâa) — sauna room or house
- Turkish: sauna — sauna room or house
- Ukrainian: са́уна (sáuna) — sauna room or house
- Ukrainian: ла́зня (láznja) — sauna room or house
- Vietnamese: phòng tắm hơi — sauna room or house
- Yiddish: שוויץ (shvits) — sauna room or house
- Yiddish: שוויצבאָד (shvitsbod) — sauna room or house
- Estonian: saun — act of using a sauna
- Estonian: saunatamine — act of using a sauna
- Finnish: saunominen — act of using a sauna
- Finnish: sauna — act of using a sauna
- German: Saunieren — act of using a sauna
- Greek: ατμόλουτρο (atmóloutro) — act of using a sauna
- Polish: sauna — act of using a sauna
- Portuguese: banho de sauna — act of using a sauna
- Romanian: baie de abur — act of using a sauna
- Swedish: bastande — act of using a sauna
- Swedish: bastubadande — act of using a sauna
- Dutch: saunaën — to use a sauna
- Estonian: saunatama — to use a sauna
- Finnish: saunoa — to use a sauna
- French: prendre un sauna — to use a sauna
- German: saunieren — to use a sauna
- Hungarian: szaunázik — to use a sauna
- Italian: usare una sauna — to use a sauna
- Japanese: サウナに入る (sauna ni hairu) — to use a sauna
- Korean: 사우나에 들어가다 (sauna-e deureogada) — to use a sauna
- Portuguese: tomar banho de sauna — to use a sauna
- Spanish: tomar un sauna — to use a sauna
- Spanish: tomar una sauna — to use a sauna
- Swedish: basta — to use a sauna
- Swedish: bada bastu — to use a sauna
- Swedish: gå i bastu — to use a sauna