Meaning & use
atrium
A large open space or hall inside a building, often rising through several floors and topped with a skylight.
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Visitors gathered in the hotel's glass-roofed atrium to wait for the tour to begin.
Sunlight poured into the office atrium, brightening the entire lobby below.
A note on using this word
In anatomy, an atrium is one of the two upper chambers of the heart that receives blood before it moves to a ventricle.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
Either of the two upper chambers of the heart that receive blood from the veins.
Blood enters the right atrium before flowing into the right ventricle.
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