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sickhouses

sickhouses is the plural of sickhouse.

Meaning of sickhouse

Noun

sickhouse (plural sickhouses)

  1. A place where sick or injured people are cared for; a hospital.
    • The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used.1830, Frederic William Naylor Bayley, Four years' residence in the West Indies
    Synonyms:
    infirmary

Questions about sickhouses

What is sickhouses the plural of?
Sickhouses is the plural of sickhouse.

Words near sickhouses in the dictionary

  1. sickfic
  2. sickfics
  3. sickfluencer
  4. sickfluencers
  5. sickhouse
  6. sickhouses
  7. sickie
  8. sickies
  9. sicking
  10. sicking up
  11. Sickinger

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