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Date "ALMS-HOUSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | For a young woman to dream of an alms-house, denotes she will meet failure in her efforts to contract a worldly marriage. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Alms-house A house where paupers are supported at the public expense; a poor-house. Also a house set apart for the aged poor free of rent. "Only, alas! the poor who had neither friends nor attendants. Crept away to die in the alms-house, home of the homeless." Longfellow: Evangeline, part ii. 5, 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ALMS-HOUSE": Working-alms-house. | |
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| Language | Translations for "ALMS-HOUSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | aggok háza, szeretetház (hospice), szegényház (alms house, common lodging house, pauper asylum, poorhouse, union, workhouse), menhely (asylum, common lodging house, home). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alms-houseay.(various references) | |
Russian | богадельня (alms house, almshouse, hospital, poor house, poorhouse, poor-house). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nh tế bần (poor-house). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: almshouse. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-m-o-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: hamulose. | |
-2 letters: housels, shaloms. | |
-3 letters: almehs, amoles, amuses, assume, haloes, haoles, hassel, hassle, haulms, hosels, housel, houses, lashes, lehuas, louses, lushes, mahoes, mashes, mohels, moshes, mouses, mousse, mushes, mussel, oleums, ousels, samshu, selahs, shales, shalom, shames, shamos, shamus, shauls, sheals, sheols, shmoes, shoals, soleus, solums, ulemas. | |
-4 letters: almeh, almes, aloes, alums, amole, amuse, ashes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-m-o-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: almshouses. | |
+2 letters: blasphemous, homosexuals. | |
+4 letters: blasphemously. | |
+5 letters: exophthalmuses, nonhomosexuals. | |
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