Meaning

4 senses
  1. A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.

    Waschhaus, Lavoir, Waschhütte

    a building or outbuilding where laundry is done

  2. A public laundry.

  3. (New Zealand)A room in a house used for washing laundry; a utility room.

  4. (UK, historical)A public facility where people could wash themselves and their clothes.

Translations

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By meaning 1
a building used as a laundry:

Origin

From Old English wæsċhūs, equivalent to wash + house.

From Old English wæsċhūs, equivalent to wash + house.

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Forms

plural: washhouses

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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