outhouse
Syllables: out·house/ˈaʊthaʊs/
outhouse noun: an outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.
Noun
outhouse (plural outhouses)
- An outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.
- 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
- The children had explored the gardens and the outhouses thoroughly before they were caught and cleaned for tea, and they saw quite well that they were certain to be happy at the White House.1902, E. Nesbit, Five Children and It
- Synonyms:
- outbuilding
Verb
outhouse (third-person singular simple present outhouses, present participle outhousing, simple past and past participle outhoused)
- To house in a separate building.
- In our discussion of outhousing we have tried to take into account the inconvenience to users as well as the potential savings in costs.1969, Great Britain. National Libraries Committee, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Report of the National Libraries Committee (page 85)
- The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building.1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 28, page 38
outhouse meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Arabic
outhouse in Tamil
- புறக்கட்டுச் சிற்றல், புறவீடு, வெளியகம்
outhouse in Urdu
- outhouse
- ذخیرہ zaxerah
outhouse in Kannada
- ಹೊರಮನೆ, ಕೊಟ್ಟಗೆ, ಕೊಟಿಗೆ, ಕೊಟ್ಟಿಗೆ, ಹಿಂದಿನ ಮನೆ, ಉಪಗೃಹ
outhouse in Arabic
- outdoor toilet — see also shithouse, latrine, toilet
- مِرْحَاض خَارِجِيّ mirḥāḍ ḵārijiyy
More languagesFewer languages
- outhouse in Vietnamese
- nhà vệ sinh, cầu tiêu
Examples of outhouse in a sentence
- There was a considerable outhouse, which he unlocked and we entered.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:
- […] plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]...
- Dumbledore pointed toward a run-down stone outhouse where the Weasleys kept their broomsticks.2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:
Synonyms of outhouse
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- johnny house
- karzy
- khazi
- kocay
- little house
- long drop
- netty
- privy
- shield
- shithouse
- shouse
- thunderbox
- usual offices
- boggard
- boghouse
- chamber foreign
- common house
- commons
- Cousin John
- danna
- draught
- draught-house
- earth closet
- foreign
- gang
- gingerbread office
- gong
- gonghouse
- house of ease
- house of easement
Forms of outhouse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | outhouses |
| alternative form (archaic) | out-house |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | outhouses |
| present participle | outhousing |
| past participle | outhoused |
| past | outhoused |
Origin of outhouse
From Middle English outhous, equivalent to out- + house. Compare Old Norse úthús (“outhouse”).
Words formed from outhouse
Questions about outhouse
- What does outhouse mean?
- Outhouse means an outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.
- What is outhouse in Tamil?
- Outhouse in Tamil is புறக்கட்டுச் சிற்றல், புறவீடு, வெளியகம். See Outhouse meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use outhouse in a sentence?
- There was a considerable outhouse, which he unlocked and we entered.
- What part of speech is outhouse?
- Outhouse can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce outhouse?
- Outhouse is pronounced /ˈaʊthaʊs/ (US).
- What is the plural of outhouse?
- The plural of outhouse is outhouses.
Words near outhouse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: outhouse (page history and authors); outhouse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ذخیرہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); outhouse (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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