Definitions for pesthouse

pesthouse pest·house

Spelling: [pest-hous]
IPA: /ˈpɛstˌhaʊs/

Pesthouse is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in pesthouse (eehopsstu).

Definitions for pesthouse

noun

  1. a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.

Origin of pesthouse

First recorded in 1605-15; pest + house

Examples for pesthouse

He laughed, danced and sang at the pesthouse—things he was never known to do before.

At this broad hint, the curious crowd reluctantly withdrew, and left the trio alone at the pesthouse threshold.

There are better reasons for putting such a man in the pesthouse than one who has smallpox.

It was the time of cholera; the boat might have become a pesthouse any moment.

William King, surgeon to the pesthouse, petitioned for a pension in 1611.

For he that without a just cause goeth into a pesthouse, may thank himself, if he get the plague.

Later, epidemics of smallpox and cholera have made a prison and a pesthouse of Manila.

My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus.

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