sanitarium

noun

as in sanatorium

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Recent Examples of sanitarium The estate later transitioned into a sanitarium that hosted the likes of Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2026 Her sanitarium was the talk of the world in 1912. — Gregg Olsen, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026 After the fair, the Spanish consulate donated the building to the City of Chicago for use as a fresh-air sanitarium. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026 One tricky problem Harvey Kellogg tried to solve at the sanitarium was treating the many patients there who suffered from severe gastrointestinal issues. — Heather Bushman, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 He was injured in a car accident in New York City following the 1912 World Series, and two months later died aboard a train while enroute to California to recuperate at a sanitarium. — Libby Cierzniak, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026 The hospice is more like a sanitarium, a European spa our parents might have frequented before the war. — Literary Hub, 16 Feb. 2026 The phrase is sometimes attributed to Hippocrates, but probably comes from Edward Livingston Trudeau, a physician who founded a nineteenth-century tuberculosis sanitarium in upstate New York, when antibiotics did not exist. — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025 Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks? — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
  1. sanatorium
  2. hospital
  3. hospice
  4. sanitorium
Noun
  • The house was so quiet, with floors made of the same marble as the maze, and curtains of pale velvet and four-poster beds, and the sanatorium feeling of glasses of milk that appeared daily on her bedside table.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
  • The site was home to a sanatorium for internal diseases in the early 20th century, founded by the physician Theodor Büdingen.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026
Definition of sanatorium
Noun
  • The children were taken to area hospitals, where they were all eventually pronounced dead.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • According to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, investigators reviewed social media accounts, a website and a billboard in Latin America that advertised maternity packages at South Texas hospitals to foreign nationals.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2026
Definition of hospital
Noun
  • In April, the Justice Department announced that eight people were arrested and several more charged in connection with a federal health care and hospice fraud investigation in Southern California.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 July 2026
  • That's why she's partnered with Baker's team and other Bay Area hospitals, hospices and medical centers through The Holding Co.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 20 July 2026
Definition of hospice
Noun
  • Established in 1855 as a military post to fight against the Mescalero Apache, the fort went on to play a minor role in the Civil War and later served as a tuberculosis sanitorium and a World War II internment camp.
    — Allison Savage Bates, Denver Post, 19 July 2026
  • Italian designer Matteo Thun was responsible for the makeover of what used to be a sanitorium.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
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