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night house

night house noun: a tavern, music-hall, or other public house which is open during the night.

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
    • Their custom was copied by fast night houses.1960, Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic

Forms of night house

pluralnight houses
alternative formnight-house

Questions about night house

What does night house mean?
Night house means a tavern, music-hall, or other public house which is open during the night.
What part of speech is night house?
Night house is a noun.
What is the plural of night house?
The plural of night house is night houses.

Words near night house in the dictionary

  1. night hand
  2. night hawk
  3. night hawks
  4. night heron
  5. night herons
  6. night house
  7. night houses
  8. night hunter
  9. night hunters
  10. night hunting
  11. night in, night out

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