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bath-house

bath-house is the alternative form of bathhouse.

Meaning of bathhouse

Noun

bathhouse (plural bathhouses)

  1. A building with baths for communal use.
    • […] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood
  2. A building where swimmers can change clothes.
  3. A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.

Forms of bath-house

pluralbath-houses

Questions about bath-house

What is bath-house the alternative form of?
Bath-house is the alternative form of bathhouse.

Words near bath-house in the dictionary

  1. Bath whites
  2. bath-bomb
  3. bath-bombs
  4. bath-brush
  5. bath-brushes
  6. bath-house
  7. bath-man
  8. bath-men
  9. bath-room
  10. bath-rooms
  11. bath-tub

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bath-house (page history and authors); bathhouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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