sanitarium

noun

as in sanatorium

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Recent Examples of sanitarium 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 See All Example Sentences for sanitarium
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 70-mile roundtrip to the hospital now costs more due to higher gas prices.
    — Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Clancy checked herself into a psychiatric hospital that New Year’s Eve and spent several days there.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of hospital
Noun
  • And many people don't actually enter hospice until the final weeks of their life.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • Her body had recently arrived at the lab following a stay in hospice.
    — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 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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