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field house

field house noun: a tent.

Noun

field house (plural field houses)

  1. (rare) A tent.
  2. (Canada, US) A large building for indoor sports, particularly at colleges.
    • There were herds of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
  3. (Canada, US) A building for equipment storage and changing rooms (locker rooms) by an outdoor sports field.

Forms of field house

pluralfield houses
alternative formfieldhouse

Origin of field house

From Middle English *feldhous, from Old English feldhūs (“a tent”), equivalent to field + house. Modern sense is from 1895, originally, a side building by an outdoor sports field, later used for large buildings for indoor sports.

Questions about field house

What does field house mean?
Field house means a tent.
What part of speech is field house?
Field house is a noun.
What is the plural of field house?
The plural of field house is field houses.

Words near field house in the dictionary

  1. field hollers
  2. field horsetail
  3. field horsetails
  4. field hospital
  5. field hospitals
  6. field house
  7. field houses
  8. field ice
  9. field investigation
  10. field investigations
  11. field jacket

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