Definition of "sauna"

sauna

/ˈsɔː.nə/

noun
plural saunas
1. A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
2. The act of using a sauna.
3. A public sauna.
4. In some countries, a business with bath-like facilities that is actually a brothel or a place for (non-commercial) sexual encounters; a bathhouse or massage parlour.
  Quotations
  McPhail ran Maitland's brothels—knocking-shops in Maryhill, Riddrie, Dennistoun, and the more upscale saunas in the West End and city centre.
  2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 250
5. (informal, figuratively) A very hot place or room.
verb
third-person singular simple present saunas, present participle saunaing, simple past and past participle saunaed
1. To use a sauna.