pesthouse

pest·house

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [pest-hous]
- /ˈpɛstˌhaʊs/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [pest-hous]
- /ˈpɛstˌhaʊs/

Definitions of pesthouse word

noun plural pesthouse a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease. 1
noun pesthouse a hospital for treating persons with infectious diseases 0
noun pesthouse a hospital for the isolation of people with contagious or epidemic diseases 0

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Origin of pesthouse

First appearance:

before 1605

One of the 40% oldest English words

First recorded in 1605-15; pest + house

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Parts of speech for Pesthouse

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Pesthouse

pesthouse popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 61% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

pesthouse usage trend in Literature

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