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back house

back house noun: a garden apartment. Also the alternative form of backhouse.

Noun

back house (plural back houses)

  1. A garden apartment.

Also used as

back house is also the alternative form of backhouse.

Forms of back house

pluralback houses

Origin of back house

From their location behind the main house of an estate.

Questions about back house

What does back house mean?
Back house means a garden apartment.
What part of speech is back house?
Back house is a noun.
What is the plural of back house?
The plural of back house is back houses.

Words near back house in the dictionary

  1. back ground
  2. back grounds
  3. back history
  4. back hole
  5. back home
  6. back house
  7. back houses
  8. back in
  9. back in day
  10. back in the day
  11. back in the days

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