Meaning

1 senses

  1. To house in a separate building.

Examples

8 sentences

  1. Gunter stepped out of the outhouse.

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  2. Ziri's house is so old it has an outhouse.

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  3. The outhouse stood a couple meters from the treeline.

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  4. My grandfather used to tip over outhouses as a kid.

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  5. Ziri lived in a house so old it had a wooden outhouse.

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Origin

From Middle English outhous, equivalent to out- + house. Compare Old Norse úthús (“outhous

From Middle English outhous, equivalent to out- + house. Compare Old Norse úthús (“outhouse”).

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Forms

outhouses, outhousing, outhoused, outhoused
Base formouthouse · to outhouse
3rd person singularouthouses
Present participleouthousing
Past simpleouthoused
Past participleouthoused

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyouthouse
he, she, itouthouses

Past simpleLesson

all personsouthoused

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave outhoused
he, she, ithas outhoused

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill outhouse

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
outflowoutgooutgrowB2outingB2outlandishoutlast

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