common house

English

Noun

common house (plural common houses)

(obsolete) A guildhall.
(obsolete) A town or city hall.
(Politics, obsolete) The House of Commons.
(architecture, obsolete) The calefactory: the site of the common fire of a medieval monastery.
(obsolete) An outhouse.
(obsolete) A brothel.

Synonyms

(guild hall): See guildhall
(town hall): See town hall
(Commons): See House of Commons
(site of the shared monastic fire): See calefactory
(outhouse): commons, House of Commons; see also Thesaurus:bathroom
(brothel): See Thesaurus:brothel

Hypernyms

house (partly structural only)

References

"† common house, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1891), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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