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bathhouse.

A building with baths for communal use.

9 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbæθˌhaʊs/General-American
  1. A building with baths for communal use.

  2. A building where swimmers can change clothes.

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

Where this word comes from

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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