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bordello

/bɔː(ɹ)ˈdɛləʊ/

bordello noun: a brothel.

Noun

bordello (plural bordellos or bordelloes)

  1. A brothel.
    • “You know, this house does have a belfry filled with local bats. Maybe Laszlo went up there.” “Oh, so like my darling perverted husband, to sniff out the local bordello immediately upon arrival. [chuckles] Could you take me to the belfry?”2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (9:33 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou)

bordello meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

bordello in Urdu

چکلہ, قحبہ خانہ

bordello in Malayalam

brothel, whore-house, disorderly house
വേശ്യാലയം, ഗണികാഗൃഹം, ഗണികാലയം, രതിശാല, വ്യഭിചാര ശാല, വ്യഭിചാരഗൃഹം

Forms of bordello

pluralbordellos
pluralbordelloes

Origin of bordello

From Italian bordello. Distantly related to brothel, through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”). Doublet of bordel. By surface analysis, Latin borda + Italian -ello (“diminutive”).

Words that rhyme with bordello

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Questions about bordello

What does bordello mean?
Bordello means a brothel.
What is bordello in Urdu?
Bordello in Urdu is چکلہ, قحبہ خانہ. See Bordello meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is bordello?
Bordello is a noun.
How do you pronounce bordello?
Bordello is pronounced /bɔː(ɹ)ˈdɛləʊ/.
What is the plural of bordello?
The plural of bordello is bordellos.

Words near bordello in the dictionary

  1. Bordelaise sauce
  2. Bordelaise sauces
  3. bordelaises
  4. Bordelese
  5. bordellers
  6. bordello
  7. bordelloes
  8. bordellos
  9. Bordelon
  10. Bordelons
  11. bordels

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bordello (page history and authors); bordello (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bordello (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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