outhouse
outhouse
Definition
out·house (o̵ut′ho̵us′)
noun
- a building separate from but located near a main building or dwelling
- ☆ a small structure used for defecating or urinating, typically having a seat with a hole over a deep pit
outhouse
Synonyms
outhouse
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- build: From the kitchen, door to private rear yard with brick build adjoining outhouse.
- use: They were obliged to use an outhouse that was perched on the banks of the river.
- convert: The office is just outside East Hill Farm house in a specially converted outhouse.
- tile: Also 3 FREEHOLD COTTAGES Brick built and slated each containing 2 lower and 2 upper rooms with brick and tiled outhouses.
- have: More U.S. homes have outhouses ( 671,000 ) than TiVos ( 504,000 to 514,000 ).
Adjective modifier
- small: The young lad led us to a small outhouse about fifty yards from the main building.
- other: I suspect I'll be living in a back garden now, in a shed or other outhouse.
- little: They live in a 3-bedroomed house, and I live in a little outhouse with a friend of theirs, Marianne Robbins.
- various: When I got to the end of the path there were several others branching in different directions to various outhouses.
- old: Ideas for use To help explain the layout of an old house or suggest a use for an old outhouse or odd shaped room.
- last: We're down to the last outhouse, said a US official.
Modifies a noun
- roof: She throws the windows open, moonlight sliding over the outhouse roof, the cooling grass.
- thing: They edged back round to the front of the outhouse thing and rapped on the door.
Noun used with modifier
- brick: Sometime Wayward Sons roadie, Russell ' Dingle ' Byrne leaned his brick outhouse frame to hauling their PA for her.
- story: Between door and end of wing a one story outhouse, rendered, with thatch roof.
- garden: Prior to this the game had been played in a garden outhouse of the original public house, which was built in 1819.
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