All 6 Uses of
atrium
in
1st to Die, by Patterson
- All I know is that barely twelve minutes after Jacobi's call, my ten-year-old Bronco screeched to a halt in front of the hotel's atrium entrance.†
p. 19.4
- The high glass atrium lobby, gold columns rising to the third floor.†
p. 30.1
- The driving beat of "La Bamba" jolted through the brightly lit atrium of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.†
p. 174.2 *
- He went down a wide, well-lit corridor off the atrium.†
p. 175.7
- McBride walked us up to the second floor and through an eerie, empty atrium devoid of pedestrian traffic to a men's room blocked off by crisscrossing yellow crime tape and cops.†
p. 186.2
- Everyone congregated in the entrance atrium.†
p. 188.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(atrium as in: atrium of the building) a large public room leading to other rooms--often skylit and containing plants and/or water features
or in ancient architecture:
a roofless area of a building--such as the center of a Roman house or an entry courtyard surrounded by roofed columns in an ancient Christian church -
(2)
(atrium as in: right atrium of the heart) chamber from which blood enters the heart
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, atrium can refer to anatomical structures other than the heart.