common house
English
Noun
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
- (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:bathroom
- (brothel): See Thesaurus:brothel
Hypernyms
- house (partly structural only)
References
- "† common house, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1891), Oxford: Oxford University Press.