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bathhouse

US/ˈbæθˌhaʊs/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,489 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: bathhouses

A bathhouse is a public building where people go to wash or bathe. The Roman bathhouse, a village bathhouse, the bathhouse steam.

For most of history most people had no bath at home, so the bathhouse was where washing happened and where a great deal of social life did too. The Roman, Turkish, Japanese and Finnish traditions all survive in some form.

Definitions of bathhouse

  1. 1nounbathhouseA public building where people go to wash or bathe.B2+

    “The ancient Romans met friends and did business in the public bathhouse.”

bathhouse is a building.

Where it comes from

Old English baethhus, bath plus house, with the same compound in Dutch and German.

  1. Old English

    bæþhūs — bathhouse

  2. Middle English

    bathhous

  3. English, today

    bathhouse

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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

bathhouse in the wild

  • Hot Springs National Park is maintained by the National Park Service and includes Bathhouse Row, which preserves the eight historic bathhouse buildings and gardens along Central Avenue.

    Hot Springs, Arkansas

  • The Bannik is a bathhouse (banya) spirit in Slavic mythology.

    Bannik

  • Slavic bathhouses resemble saunas, with an inner steaming room and an outer changing room.

    Bannik

  • A gay bathhouse, also known as a gay sauna or a gay steambath, is a public bath targeted towards gay and bisexual men.

    Gay bathhouse

  • In gay slang, a bathhouse may be called just "the baths", "the sauna", or "the tubs".

    Gay bathhouse

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.