-arium, -orium

Learn these words ending with the suffix -arium or -orium, which mean "a place for."
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  1. aquarium
    a tank or pool filled with water for keeping live fish
  2. auditorium
    the area of a theater or hall where the audience sits
  3. emporium
    a large shop organized into sections
  4. herbarium
    a collection of dried plants that are mounted and classified
  5. planetarium
    an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems
  6. sanitarium
    a hospital for recuperation or for treating chronic diseases
  7. solarium
    a room enclosed largely with glass to allow sunlight in
  8. terrarium
    transparent container in which plants and animals are kept
  9. vivarium
    an indoor enclosure for keeping living animals and plants
  10. cinerarium
    a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead
Created on Fri May 30 15:16:24 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jun 06 15:35:20 EDT 2025)

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