Definitions for atrium

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atrium a·tri·um

Spelling: [ey-tree-uh m]

IPA: /ˈeɪ tri əm/

Atrium is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in atrium (aimrtu).

Definitions for atrium

noun

1. Architecture. Also called cavaedium. the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rain water. a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church. a skylit central court in a contemporary building or house.
2. Anatomy. either of the two upper chambers on each side of the heart that receive blood from the veins and in turn force it into the ventricles.

Origin of atrium

1570-80; Latin (in anatomical sense

Examples for atrium

Without looking to right or left he strode across the atrium.

He was wounded as he and a number of comrades exchanged fire with Alexis, by one account across the atrium.

In the house of Vettius the two money chests were found in the atrium.

Fauces, the passage from the atrium to the peristyle in a Roman house.

The PBS broadcast will also be screened for free, beginning at 9:00 p.m., at the David Rubenstein atrium at Lincoln Center.

This basin was in the center of the atrium, the most important room in the house.

They left the hall leisurely and found a vacant settle in the atrium.

He had reassembled the weapon in a bathroom and stepped out onto a fourth-floor walkway overlooking an atrium.

Tablinum, in a Roman house, the room between the atrium and the peristyle.

A man in evening dress came out into the atrium, lighting a cigarette.