bathhouse

Noun

a building containing dressing rooms for bathers
a building containing public baths
A building with baths for communal use.
A building where swimmers can change clothes.
A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

bagnio, bathing machine

Scrabble Score: 17

bathhouse is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
bathhouse is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bathhouse is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

bathhouse is a valid Words With Friends word