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pump room

pump room

7.6
A room at a spa where people drink mineral water and talk
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : sala de bombas
  • After a long day at the spa, patrons often gather in the pump room to enjoy the soothing atmosphere and discuss their experiences.

Examples

  • When she spies Eleanor in the pump room, she disengages herself from Isabella and James, walks over to the young woman with whom she desires to become better acquainted, and initiates a conversation.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The elegant pump room featured large windows, allowing guests to chat while sipping on herbal teas.

  • Visitors to the spa are invited to relax in the pump room, where they can enjoy the benefits of mineral-rich waters.

How Social

hall
314 1.0
pump room
  • Archaic
7.6
spa
161 1.0
shower room
6 1.0

Surface Forms

pump room singular
pump rooms plural

Morphology

pump + room

The phrase is compositionally built from 'pump' + 'room' and a learner can infer it denotes a room associated with a pump (i.e., a place for pumping). However, the specific specialised sense — a private space for nursing parents to use a breast pump — depends on extra world knowledge and cultural/practical awareness, so the meaning is only partially predictable to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Pump room comes from spa towns where a pump pushed mineral water into a public room. People drank the water there and met each other, so the name came to mean 'a room at a spa where medicinal water is given and people gather'.