Meaning of woodhouse | Babel Free
/ˈwʊd.haʊs/Definitions
- A surname.
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A house or shed for storing (chopped) wood Texas
- Various places in the United Kingdom:
- A southern suburb of Whitehaven, Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NX9716).
- A village and civil parish in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5415).
- A suburban village and ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4284).
- A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, south western Victoria, Australia
Equivalents
Français
Woodhouse
Examples
“The ceiling is covered with paintings of scriptural subjects, which still remain, notwithstanding that the building is now desecrated, and used as a woodhouse by the neighboring farmer.”
“I felt awfully poor, and a stranger, and this was a beginning for me at any rate, so I went to work with a will and never lost a minute of daylight till I had split up all the wood and filled his woodhouse completely up.”
“Now this door, which had been left ajar by Polly when she ran off, opened into a little courtyard where the fowls were shut in at night; the woodhouse and the privy also stood there.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.