bathhouse

Meanings

1. 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. 2
   noun

   A small building where swimmers can change their clothes.

   We left our towels in the bathhouse near the beach.

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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