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slaughterhouse

Syllables: slaugh·ter·houseUK/ˈsloː.tə(ɹ).haʊs/

slaughterhouse noun: a place where animals are slaughtered.

Noun

slaughterhouse (plural slaughterhouses)

  1. A place where animals are slaughtered.
    Synonyms:
    abattoir, shambles
  2. (figuratively) The scene of a massacre.
    • The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 20:09 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022

slaughterhouse meaning in Malayalam and Gujarati

slaughterhouse in Malayalam

abattoir, butchery, shambles
കശാപ്പുശാല, അറവുശാല, ഇറച്ചിക്കട, കൊലക്കളം, മൃഗങ്ങളെ അറക്കുന്ന സ്ഥലം, മൃഗങ്ങളെ കശാപ്പുചെയ്യുന്ന

slaughterhouse in Gujarati

slaughterhouse, abattoir
કતલખાનું katalkhānũ

Synonyms of slaughterhouse

Forms of slaughterhouse

pluralslaughterhouses

Plural of slaughterhouse: slaughterhouses

Origin of slaughterhouse

From slaughter + house.

Questions about slaughterhouse

What does slaughterhouse mean?
Slaughterhouse means a place where animals are slaughtered.
What is slaughterhouse in Malayalam?
Slaughterhouse in Malayalam is കശാപ്പുശാല, അറവുശാല, ഇറച്ചിക്കട. See Slaughterhouse meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is slaughterhouse?
Slaughterhouse is a noun.
How do you pronounce slaughterhouse?
Slaughterhouse is pronounced /ˈsloː.tə(ɹ).haʊs/ (UK).
What is the plural of slaughterhouse?
The plural of slaughterhouse is slaughterhouses.

Words near slaughterhouse in the dictionary

  1. slaughteresses
  2. slaughterfest
  3. slaughterfests
  4. slaughterhall
  5. slaughterhalls
  6. slaughterhouse
  7. slaughterhouses
  8. slaughteries
  9. slaughtering
  10. slaughteringly
  11. slaughterings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: slaughterhouse (page history and authors); slaughterhouse (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); કતલખાનું (Gujarati) (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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