Definitions for almshouses

almshouses alms·house

Spelling: [ahmz-hous]
IPA: /ˈɑmzˌhaʊs/

Almshouses is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 482 anagrams from letters in almshouses (aehlmosssu).

Definitions for almshouses

noun

  1. a house endowed by private charity for the reception and support of the aged or infirm poor.
  2. (formerly) a poorhouse.

Origin of almshouses

First recorded in 1350-1400, almshouse is from the Middle English word almes hous. See alms, house

Examples for almshouses

On the one side is the palace, on the other are the almshouse and "silent poor."

The almshouse could tell the story of a hundred women who married men to reform them.

A few years later Charterhouse was converted into an almshouse and a school.

She provides for us an almshouse in which we can take refuge when we are old and weary.

At this time he had taken Leo from the almshouse, to be her companion in his absence.

He took his way across the fields, so as to reach the almshouse before his father.

Why, she was preparing to investigate every jail and almshouse in the State of Massachusetts.

No, that's too grand a comparison; rather, Oxford is like an almshouse for clergymen's widows.

On the other hand, we shall not relegate the old to an almshouse.

"I will give up now, Fitz, and go to the almshouse," sobbed she.

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