office-house
office-house noun: a building or outhouse on a farm, estate, manor, palace, etc. used for household work, storage, housing servants, etc; the office of the steward or bailiff on a manor or estate; a house of office.
Noun
office-house (plural office-houses)
- A building or outhouse on a farm, estate, manor, palace, etc. used for household work, storage, housing servants, etc; the office of the steward or bailiff on a manor or estate; a house of office.
- That gloomy spot they spoke of lay aside from the hamlet. In a dell, begirt with firs, you might behold a hut, and various ruined office-houses.1827, Thomas Carlyle, Ludwig Tieck's "The Elves"
- This Pallace ... hath neither outward walles nor gates ... save onely some office houses without.1632, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteen Yeares Travayles, section 10.444
Forms of office-house
| plural | office-houses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | officehouse |
Questions about office-house
- What does office-house mean?
- Office-house means a building or outhouse on a farm, estate, manor, palace, etc. used for household work, storage, housing servants, etc; the office of the steward or bailiff on a manor or estate; a house of office.
- What part of speech is office-house?
- Office-house is a noun.
- What is the plural of office-house?
- The plural of office-house is office-houses.
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