Meaning

3 senses

  1. A building with baths for communal use.

    Badehaus, Bad, Badeanstalt

    ба́няbánja

    ла́зняláznja, ба́няbánja

    a building containing public baths

  2. A building where swimmers can change clothes.

    раздева́лкаrazdeválka, раздева́льняrazdeválʹnja

    перевдяга́льняperevdjahálʹnja

  3. A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.

Examples

17 sentences

  1. The fire started in the bathhouse.

    Вогонь пішов від лазні.

    ruПожар начался в бане.

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  2. The Japanese public bathhouse was once used as a center of social life in one's neighborhood.

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  3. Did they heat up the bathhouse?

    ruБаню топили?

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  4. The town needs a new bathhouse.

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  5. Neo liked sitting in the sauna in the bathhouse.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
building with baths for communal use:
building where swimmers change clothes:
Русский
By meaning 2
building with baths for communal use:
building where swimmers change clothes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
building with baths for communal use:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), eq

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”).

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Forms

plural: bathhouses
Singularbathhouse
Pluralbathhouses

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a building containing public baths:bagnio
  • a building containing dressing rooms for bathers:bathing machine

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bathA1batheB1batherbathrobebathroomA1bathtub
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