whorehouse
whorehouse noun: brothel.
Noun
whorehouse (plural whorehouses)
- Brothel.
- The Towne Hall is a big inflatable building in the middle of the Snooze ’n’ Crusie. It is Derelict Las Vegas: convenience store, video arcade, laundromat, bar, liquor store, flea market, whorehouse.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 276
whorehouse meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
whorehouse in Urdu
- چکلہ, کوٹھا, قحبہ خانہ, طوائف خانہ
whorehouse in Malayalam
- brothel, bordello, knocking shop
- വേശ്യാലയം, ഗണികാഗൃഹം, തേവിടിപ്പുര, പുരം, വ്യഭിചാരശാല, വ്യഭിചാരകേന്ദ്രം
Forms of whorehouse
| plural | whorehouses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | whore-house |
Origin of whorehouse
From Middle English horehous, equivalent to whore + house. Cognate with Dutch hoerenhuis (“whorehouse”), German Hurenhaus (“whorehouse”), Danish horehus (“whorehouse”), Swedish horhus (“whorehouse”), Icelandic hóruhús (“whorehouse; brothel”).
Questions about whorehouse
- What does whorehouse mean?
- Whorehouse means brothel.
- What is whorehouse in Urdu?
- Whorehouse in Urdu is چکلہ, کوٹھا, قحبہ خانہ. See Whorehouse meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is whorehouse?
- Whorehouse is a noun.
- What is the plural of whorehouse?
- The plural of whorehouse is whorehouses.
Words near whorehouse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: whorehouse (page history and authors); whorehouse (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whorehouse (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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