common house
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]common house (plural common houses)
- (obsolete) A guildhall.
- (obsolete) A town or city hall.
- (Politics, obsolete) The House of Commons.
- (architecture, obsolete) The calefactory: the site of the common fire of a medieval monastery.
- (obsolete) An outhouse.
- (obsolete) A brothel.
Synonyms
[edit]- (guild hall): See guildhall
- (town hall): See town hall
- (Commons): See House of Commons
- (site of the shared monastic fire): See calefactory
- (outhouse): commons, House of Commons; see also Thesaurus:outhouse
- (brothel): See Thesaurus:brothel
Hypernyms
[edit]- house (partly structural only)
References
[edit]- "† common house, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1891), Oxford: Oxford University Press.