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woodhouse

/ˈwʊd.haʊs/

woodhouse noun: a house or shed for storing (chopped) wood.

Noun

woodhouse (plural woodhouses)

  1. (Texas) A house or shed for storing (chopped) wood
    • The ceiling is covered with paintings of scriptural subjects, which still remain, notwithstanding that the building is now desecrated, and used as a woodhouse by the neighboring farmer.1820, Dawson Turner, Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. I. (of 2)
    • I felt awfully poor, and a stranger, and this was a beginning for me at any rate, so I went to work with a will and never lost a minute of daylight till I had split up all the wood and filled his woodhouse completely up.1894, William Lewis Manly, Death Valley in '49

Proper noun capitalized: Woodhouse

Woodhouse

  1. A surname.
  2. A southern suburb of Whitehaven, Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NX9716).
  3. A village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5415).
  4. A suburban village and ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4284).
  5. A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, south western Victoria, Australia

Forms of woodhouse

Noun
pluralwoodhouses
alternative formwood house
alternative formwood-house
Proper noun
alternative formWodehouse

Origin of woodhouse

From wood + house.

Words formed from woodhouse

Questions about woodhouse

What does woodhouse mean?
Woodhouse means a house or shed for storing (chopped) wood.
What part of speech is woodhouse?
Woodhouse can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce woodhouse?
Woodhouse is pronounced /ˈwʊd.haʊs/.
What is the plural of woodhouse?
The plural of woodhouse is woodhouses.

Words near woodhouse in the dictionary

  1. woodhole
  2. woodholes
  3. woodhoopoe
  4. woodhoopoes
  5. Woodhorn
  6. woodhouse
  7. Woodhouse Eaves
  8. Woodhouse Mill
  9. Woodhouse-Sakati syndrome
  10. woodhouseite
  11. Woodhouselee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woodhouse (page history and authors); Woodhouse (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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