bathhouse

B2 Topic:General Vocabulary

US /ˈbæθˌhaʊs/ See IPA manual

Freq #25956

Meanings

1

noun
A building with baths that the public can use to wash or relax.

The ancient Romans built large public bathhouses across the city.
2

noun
A small building where swimmers can change their clothes.

We left our towels in the bathhouse near the beach.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a building with baths that... bagnio

Word family

Forms bathhouses

Etymology

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”).

bathhous Middle English bæþhūs Old English

View etymology graph ->

Topics

General Vocabulary

External links

# bathhouse

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈbæθˌhaʊs/
**Frequency rank:** 25956

## Meanings
1. A building with baths that the public can use to wash or relax.
2. A small building where swimmers can change their clothes.

## Examples
- The ancient Romans built large public bathhouses across the city.
- We left our towels in the bathhouse near the beach.

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: bathhous
- Root: bæþhūs

## Etymology
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”).

## AI Etymology
Bathhouse is 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”).

## Topics
- General Vocabulary

markdown