Word.ws English Dictionary

doss-houses

doss-houses is the plural of doss-house.

Meaning of doss-house

Noun

doss-house (plural doss-houses)

  1. A place where homeless people can sleep for the night.
    • W. Besant
      They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy.

Questions about doss-houses

What is doss-houses the plural of?
Doss-houses is the plural of doss-house.

Words near doss-houses in the dictionary

  1. doss house
  2. doss houses
  3. doss off
  4. doss out
  5. doss-house
  6. doss-houses
  7. dossal
  8. dossals
  9. dossard
  10. dossards
  11. dossbag

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doss-houses (page history and authors); doss-house (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “doss-houses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/doss-houses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.