natatorium
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /neɪtəˈtɔːɹɪəm/
  • (GA) IPA: /ne͡ɪtəˈtɔːɹi.əm/, /nætə-/, /næɾə-/
Noun

natatorium (plural natatoriums)

  1. (US) A swimming pool, especially an indoor one; a building house#Verb|housing one or more swimming pools.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, ISBN 978-1-59420-120-2; republished London: Vintage Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-09-951233-2, page 226:
      A sunken chamber almost like a natatorium at some hot-springs resort, so cool and dim that you forgot after a while about the desert waiting out there to resume for you as soon as you stepped back into it. […]
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