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  • 1sauna — [[t]sɔ͟ːnə[/t]] saunas 1) N COUNT If you have a sauna, you sit or lie in a room that is so hot that it makes you sweat. People have saunas in order to relax and to clean their skin thoroughly. 2) N COUNT A sauna is a room or building where you… …

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  • 2sauna — UK [ˈsɔːnə] / US [ˈsɔnə] noun [countable] Word forms sauna : singular sauna plural saunas a) a small hot wooden room that people sit in in order to sweat (= produce water from their skin) He s in the sauna. b) a period of time spent in a sauna… …

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  • 3sauna — sau|na [ˈso:nə US ˈso:nə, ˈsaunə] n [Date: 1800 1900; : Finnis] 1.) a room that is heated to a very high temperature by hot air, where people sit because it is considered healthy 2.) a period of time when you sit or lie in a room like this… …

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  • 4sauna — noun (C) 1 a room that is heated to a very high temperature by hot air, where people sit because it is considered healthy 2 a period of time when you sit or lie in a room like this: have/take a sauna: I have a sauna and massage every week …

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  • 5sauna — sau|na [ sɔnə ] noun count a small hot wooden room that people sit in in order to SWEAT (=produce water from their skin): He s in the sauna. a. a period of time spent in a sauna: Why don t you have a sauna? …

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  • 6Sauna — For other uses, see Sauna (disambiguation). A traditional Finnish shore sauna view …

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  • 7sauna — /saw neuh, sow /, n., v., saunaed, saunaing. n. 1. a bath that uses dry heat to induce perspiration, and in which steam is produced by pouring water on heated stones. 2. a bathhouse or room, usually of wood, equipped for such a bath. v.i. 3. to… …

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  • 8sauna —    a brothel    Since antiquity public wash houses have catered for other masculine needs than cleanliness:     ... more magazines restrict advertisements for saunas or escorts to a few pages. (Sunday Telegraph, 28 August 1994, reporting on… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 9Banya (sauna) — Depiction in the mid 1920s of a rural banya by Russian artist Boris Kustodiev: Russian Venus (armed with birch twigs) Banya (Russian: баня [ˈbanjə]) in Russian can refer to any kind of steam bath, but usually to the Russian type of sauna. In… …

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  • 10Finnish sauna — The Finnish sauna is a substantial part of Finnish culture. There are five million inhabitants and over two million saunas in Finland an average of one per household. For Finnish people the sauna is a place for easing with friends and family, and …

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