Thermae

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Roman-style spring or baths with warm or hot water. plural, plural-only

    "The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae)."

Synonyms

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bathbathhousebathroombathsgeysergeyser

Example

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"Seneca (epistol. lxxxvi.) compares the baths of Scipio Africanus, at his villa of Liternum, with the magnificence (which was continually increasing) of the public baths of Rome, long before the stately Thermae of Antoninus and Diocletian were erected."

Etymology

From Latin thermae, plural of therma. See thermal.

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