Meaning of woodhouse | Babel Free
ˈwʊd.haʊsDefinitions
- A surname.
- A house or shed for storing (chopped) wood
- 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
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.
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