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night-house

night-house is the alternative form of night house.

Meaning of night house

Noun

night house (plural night houses)

  1. (historical) A tavern, music-hall, or other public house which is open during the night.
    • The only remarkable scene in Amsterdam, which our company had not seen, was the Spuyl or musick-houses […]. To one of these night-houses did our travellers repair, under the conduct of the English merchant […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Forms of night-house

pluralnight-houses

Questions about night-house

What is night-house the alternative form of?
Night-house is the alternative form of night house.

Words near night-house in the dictionary

  1. night-gowns
  2. night-hag
  3. night-hags
  4. night-hand
  5. night-heron
  6. night-house
  7. night-houses
  8. night-jar
  9. night-jars
  10. night-lifer
  11. night-lifers

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

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