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out-house

out-house is the archaic form of outhouse.

Meaning of outhouse

Noun

outhouse (plural outhouses)

  1. (Canada, US) An outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.
  2. (dated) Any outbuilding: any small structure located apart from a main building.
    • I had first to obtain a recommendation from the Assistant Resident to the Regent, and then an order from the Regent to the Waidono; and when after a week's delay I arrived with my baggage and men at Modjo-agong, I found them all in the midst of a five days' feast, to celebrate the circumcision of...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 161
    Synonyms:
    outbuilding

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Forms of out-house

pluralout-houses

Questions about out-house

What is out-house the archaic form of?
Out-house is the archaic form of outhouse.

Words near out-house in the dictionary

  1. out-Herods
  2. out-hike
  3. out-hiked
  4. out-hikes
  5. out-hiking
  6. out-house
  7. out-houses
  8. out-loud
  9. out-migration
  10. out-migrations
  11. out-Muslim

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