Associations to the word «Sanatorium»

Wiktionary

SANATORIUM, noun. An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence

Dictionary definition

SANATORIUM, noun. A hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases.
SANATORIUM, noun. Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats