- 1a large high space, usually with a glass roof, in the center of a modern building The reception was held in the atrium.
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- 2an open space in the center of an ancient Roman villa
- 3(anatomy) either of the two upper spaces in the heart that are used in the first stage of sending the blood around the body synonym auricle
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