Turkish bath
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4.1
- noun
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baño turco
- After my workout, I love to go to the Turkish bath for a steam and a massage.
Examples
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Well, first off, I'm going to a Turkish bath and I'm gonna sweat and soak… …till I get all the grime and dirt out of my system.
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Therefore, he strived to establish the London and Turkish Bath Company on 19 November 1860 and later built the first Turkish bath in London.
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I went to a Turkish bath.
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It's a Turkish bath house in the French Quarter?
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If you got a cold, you go to a Turkish bath.
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I went to a Turkish bath.
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Oh my God, a Turkish bath, you absolute legend.
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In England, the first Turkish bath was established in 1650 by a Turkish Jew called Jacobs.
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One of the fascinating descriptions cited in Montagu's Letters was her account of the Turkish baths that she witnessed in Turkey.
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After a long week, I decided to relax at a Turkish bath to unwind and rejuvenate.
Synonyms
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3.0
A public building where people wash and change clothes, often by a beach or pool
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3.7
A room filled with hot steam where people sit to relax
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3.2
A hot room filled with steam where you sit to relax and ease muscle pain
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8.4
A traditional public steam bath in the Middle East and North Africa
A hot room filled with steam for cleaning and relaxing the body
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward demonym + noun: 'Turkish' (from Turkey) + 'bath' (a place for bathing), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a kind of bath associated with Turkish tradition. Although specific cultural details (steam, massage) are not fully predictable, the core meaning — a bath of Turkish style — is directly compositional and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Turkish bath comes from old public washing houses in Turkey called 'hammams'. In those places people sat in hot steam, were washed and often got a massage, so the words Turkish and bath came to mean 'a steam room with washing and massage'.