WikiWord

English

longhouse

noun

Meaning

  1. A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malays, the Indonesians, the Vikings and many other peoples.
  2. An outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
longhouse — meaning and etymology | WikiWord