vapor bath

1. 1.

   a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe; `vapour bath' is a British term

   Synonymssteam bathsteam roomvapour bath

   Broaderroom

   NarrowersaunaTurkish bath
2. 2.

   you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower

   SynonymsTurkish bathsteam bathvapour bath

   Broaderwashup

Questions about vapor bath

What does vapor bath mean?

vapor bath means "a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe; `vapour bath' is a British term". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for vapor bath?

Close synonyms include steam bath, steam room, vapour bath, Turkish bath, steam bath. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vapor bath a common word?

vapor bath is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.