sunroom

noun

variants also sun parlor
Definition of sunroomnext
as in solarium

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Recent Examples of sunroom There’s also an optional first-floor sunroom that makes for a bright, relaxing space. — Toni Sutton, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025 Both the living room and sunroom have ceiling fans. — Angela Serratore, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025 Three additional guest rooms round out this level. Upstairs, a sunroom with its own windowed bath could easily be turned into a home office, den, or playroom for kids. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2024 There’s a second living room with another fireplace, formal dining room, office, and sunrooms. — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sunroom
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunroom
  1. solarium
  2. sunporch
  3. sleeping porch
  4. portico
Noun
  • To wit, the double-height living room stuns with a wall of paned windows, making the space feel like a solarium, anchored by a gas fireplace and mantle.
    — Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Not to be missed, however, is The Green House, a beguiling antique solarium, a perfect garden café for a cup of espresso, hot tea, or freshly baked pastry.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Definition of solarium
Noun
  • Dobbertin’s new Pearl showcase Best Quality Daughter is like floating through dreamscapes, one room a gauzy pink remembrance of wallpapered family dinners, another room a sunporch escape, another in honeyed wood tones and blue velvet for deep conversation or just tacky gossip.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The setting can change: A sunporch, a park, a lawn, a beach all work.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
Definition of sunporch
Noun
  • My parents’ house originally had two sleeping porches, both upstairs, one east and one west.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
  • Residential builders soon caught on, and by the early 1900s, sleeping porches were appearing in homes from Minneapolis to Brooklyn, New York.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024
Definition of sleeping porch
Noun
  • This curved portico, four stories high, spans a remarkable 120 feet without a single supporting column.
    — Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Crickets chirp in the grass beside the driveway, which winds up a bluff, past two towering fir trees and a columned portico, to the side of the building.
    — Blaine Davis, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
Definition of portico

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