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Plural of workhouse

regular plural

The plural of workhouse is workhouses.

Forms of workhouse

Singularworkhouse
Pluralworkhouses
Countablecountable

Meaning of workhouse

  1. noun An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.
  2. noun A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.
  3. noun A place of manufacture; a factory.

Full definition of workhouse

Questions about the plural of workhouse

What is the plural of workhouse?
The plural of workhouse is workhouses.
Is workhouse countable?
Workhouse is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: workhouse (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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