Bathhouse
/ˈbæθˌhaʊs/ noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A building with baths for communal use.
"[…] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers."
- 2 a building containing public baths wordnet
- 3 A building where swimmers can change clothes.
- 4 a building containing dressing rooms for bathers wordnet
- 5 A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.
Example
More examples"The fire started in the bathhouse."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), equivalent to bath + house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis (“bathhouse”), German Badehaus (“bathhouse”), German Low German Baadhuus, Boodhuus (“bathhouse”), Danish badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Bokmål badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Nynorsk badehus (“bathhouse”), Swedish badhus (“bathhouse”).