communal bath
Public bathing facility
A communal bath is a bathing facility shared by multiple people, either simultaneously or in succession.
The term covers everything from Japanese sentō and onsen to Roman thermae to the shared bathhouses of apartment buildings without private plumbing.
Some communal baths emphasize hygiene, others socializing or ritual purification: The village communal bath was where news traveled fastest.
- bathhousePublic washing facility
- onsenJapanese thermal bath
- soakSaturate with liquid
- hot tubHeated jetted soaking pool
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
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- bathingbathtub, wash, tub, soaking tub, soak
- bathsbathtub, bathhouse, hot tub, sauna, tub
- jjimjilbangsauna, heated floor, hot room, cold room, steam room
- ryokanryokan, tatami rooms, tatami room, tatami, futon
- bathroomsbathtub, shower, sink, vanity, en suite
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