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live house

live house noun: a music venue featuring live music.

Noun

live house (plural live houses)

  1. A music venue featuring live music.
    • There are roughly 1,000 live houses in Japan, and around 300 in Tokyo alone. […] So you have to think of a live house as a stadium, where everyone is there for the music.2009 September 20, Kevin Mcgue, “Tokyo's live house music scene set to go global”, in Japan Today, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2022
    • As the pandemic related health and safety restrictions continue, live houses are left out and facing permanent closure.2020 July 30, Lisa Wallin, “Is This The End Of Japan’s Live Houses?”, in Tokyo Weekender, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2024

Forms of live house

plurallive houses
alternative formlivehouse

Origin of live house

Borrowed from Japanese ライブハウス, itself a pseudo-anglicism derived from live + house.

Questions about live house

What does live house mean?
Live house means a music venue featuring live music.
What part of speech is live house?
Live house is a noun.
What is the plural of live house?
The plural of live house is live houses.

Words near live house in the dictionary

  1. live fast, die young
  2. live feed
  3. live feeds
  4. live for
  5. live from paycheck to paycheck
  6. live house
  7. live houses
  8. live in
  9. live in each other's pockets
  10. live in hope
  11. live in sin

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