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outhouses

outhouses is the plural of outhouse.

outhouses is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about outhouses

What is outhouses the plural of?
Outhouses is the plural of outhouse.

Words near outhouses in the dictionary

  1. outhorrored
  2. outhorroring
  3. outhorrors
  4. outhouse
  5. outhoused
  6. outhouses
  7. outhousey
  8. outhousing
  9. outhousings
  10. outhowl
  11. outhowled

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