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• sauna — /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… …   Universalium

• sauna — 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… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• sauna — 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 …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• sauna — sau•na [[t]ˈsɔ nə, ˈsaʊ [/t]] n. pl. nas, 1) a bath that uses dry heat to induce perspiration, and in which steam is produced by pouring water on heated stones 2) a room equipped for such a bath 3) cvb to take a sauna • Etymology: 1880–85; <… …   From formal English to slang

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

• Finnish 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 …   Wikipedia

• Banya (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… …   Wikipedia

• World Sauna Championships — is an annual event held in Heinola, Finland. It originates from unofficial sauna sitting competitions that resulted in a ban from the swimhall in Heinola. The championships were first arranged in 1999 and the event has grown bigger every year.… …   Wikipedia

• Gay bathhouse — Gay bathhouses, also known as gay saunas or steam baths (and sometimes called, in gay slang in some regions, the baths or the tubs ), are places where men can go to have sex with other men. Not all men who visit such bathhouses consider… …   Wikipedia

• Sidewalk Sam — is the performative name for Robert Charles Guillemin (born 4 May 1939), a Boston based artist who resides in Newton, Massachusetts. He is best recognized for his reproductions of European masterpieces, chalked or painted on the sidewalk.… …   Wikipedia

• martyr —    This word does not normally occur vocatively, but in Mountain of Winter, by Shirley Schoonover. a man who is recovering from a bad hangover is being made to take a sauna bath. ‘Put me on the cross, why don’t you? Finish me once and for all,’… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address