bathhouse

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈbæθˌhaʊs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A building with baths for communal use.
    — […] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.
  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.

词形变化

bathhouses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Bathhouse Barry

词源

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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