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bathhouse

/ˈbæθˌhaʊs/

bathhouse noun: a building with baths for communal use.

bathhouse: a building with baths for communal use
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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
    • The landslide hit Xiangning county in Shanxi province early Friday evening, provincial authorities said. Two residential buildings, home to a total of 14 households, and a public bathhouse collapsed under the weight of the falling earth.2019 March 16, “North China landslide knocks over homes, killing 7”, in AP News, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2023
  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.

bathhouse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Gujarati

bathhouse in Hindi

building with baths for communal use
ग़ुस्लख़ाना ġuslaxānā, ग़ुसलख़ाना ġusalxānā

bathhouse in Tamil

குளிப்பகம், நீராட்டுமனை

bathhouse in Urdu

building with baths for communal use
غُسْل خانَہ ġusl xāna

bathhouse in Gujarati

bathhouse, hammam, Turkish bath
હમામ hamām
More languagesFewer languages
bathhouse in Pashto
حمام hamām
bathhouse in Arabic
حَمَّام ḥammām
bathhouse in Thai
ห้องอาบน้ำ
bathhouse in Vietnamese
nhà tắm

Forms of bathhouse

pluralbathhouses

Plural of bathhouse: bathhouses

Origin of bathhouse

Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), equivalent to bath + house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis (“bathhouse”), German Badehaus (“bathhouse”), German Low German Baadhuus, Boodhuus (“bathhouse”), Danish badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Bokmål badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Nynorsk badehus (“bathhouse”), Swedish badhus (“bathhouse”).

Words formed from bathhouse

Questions about bathhouse

What does bathhouse mean?
Bathhouse means a building with baths for communal use.
What is bathhouse in Hindi?
Bathhouse in Hindi is ग़ुस्लख़ाना (ġuslaxānā), ग़ुसलख़ाना (ġusalxānā). See Bathhouse meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bathhouse?
Bathhouse is a noun.
How do you pronounce bathhouse?
Bathhouse is pronounced /ˈbæθˌhaʊs/ (US).
What is the plural of bathhouse?
The plural of bathhouse is bathhouses.

Words near bathhouse in the dictionary

  1. bathetically
  2. Bathford
  3. bathful
  4. bathfuls
  5. Bathgate
  6. bathhouse
  7. Bathhouse Barry
  8. bathhouses
  9. bathin'
  10. Bathinda
  11. bathinette

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bathhouse (page history and authors); bathhouse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); હમામ (Gujarati) (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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