Alehouse

Definition: Alehouse

Alehouse

Noun

1. A tavern where ale is sold.

Date "alehouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Drunkenness	Liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off; (drink up); go to the alehouse, go to the public house.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Alehouse

English words defined with "alehouse": Alebench, Alepole, Alestake ♦ Beerhouse ♦ Mughouse ♦ Nale ♦ Scotale. (references)

Specialty definitions using "alehouse": ALE DRAPER, Ale-wife ♦ BURN THE KEN ♦ Clowns, Crowdero ♦ FREEHOLDER ♦ HEDGE ALEHOUSE ♦ MUMPERS HALL ♦ NECK STAMPER ♦ QUEER BLUFFER ♦ Rusty-Fusty ♦ TENANT AT WILL, TO WHIP OFF. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Alehouse Sonnets (reference) Laughter in the Alehouse (Penguin Crime Fiction) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Alehouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alehouse" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	44	51,500

Expression using "alehouse": go to the alehouse. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "alehouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		birrari (beerhouse, gin mill, gin-shop, hotel, mug-house, pub, saloon, tap house, taproom). (various references)

Arabic		‏نادى المزر. (various references)

Bulgarian		кръчма (bodega, boozer, cabaret, cantiniere, gin mill, gin-shop, grog-shop, house, inn, pub, public, public house, saloon, tavern, wine vault, wineshop), пивница (cantina, dram-shop, drinking place, porterhouse, pub, public house, saloon, wineshop). (various references)

Czech		pivnice (ale-house, beerhouse, brasserie, porterhouse, pot house). (various references)

French		club. (various references)

German		Bierschenke. (various references)

Hebrew		מסבא�" (bar, brasserie, pub, public house, saloon, taproom, tavern). (various references)

Hungarian		kocsma (boozer, dram-shop, grocery, jerry, jerry shop, jerry-shop, pot house, pub, public house, saloon, shades, tavern). (various references)

Italian		birreria (beer house, brasserie, brewery). (various references)

Pig Latin		alehouseay

Portuguese		taberna (canteen, public, tap house, taproom, tavern), cervejaria (beerhouse, brewery, brewing house, ginseng, pothouse, pub, public house). (various references)

Russian		пивная (ale-house, barrel house, barrel shop, beerhouse, dram-shop, gin mill, gin-shop, hostelry, mug-house, porterhouse, pothouse, pot-house, pub, public house, rathskeller, taphouse, taproom, watering hole). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pivnica (beerhouse, jerry shop, porterhouse, tavern). (various references)

Spanish		cervecería (bar, beerhouse, brewery). (various references)

Swedish		ölstuga (brasserie). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "alehouse": alehouses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Alehouse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allafouza, Altenhaus, Arethousa, Galehouse, Lohoues. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "alehouse" (pronounced ā"lhou's)
5	ā" l h ou' s	jailhouse.
4	-l h ou' s	dollhouse, schoolhouse.
3	-h ou' s	boardinghouse, boathouse, clearinghouse, clubhouse, coffeehouse, courthouse, doghouse, farmhouse, firehouse, greenhouse, guesthouse, henhouse, hothouse, lighthouse, longhouse, madhouse, outhouse, packinghouse, penthouse, Playhouse, poorhouse, powerhouse, roadhouse, roundhouse, slaughterhouse, statehouse, steakhouse, storehouse, townhouse, warehouse, whorehouse.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-l-o-s-u"
	-2 letters: haloes, haoles, housel, lehuas.
	-3 letters: aloes, easel, hales, halos, haole, hauls, heals, heels, helos, holes, hosel, house, hulas, lease, leash, lehua, louse, ousel, selah, shale, shaul, sheal, sheol, shoal.
	-4 letters: alee, ales, aloe, also, ease, eels, else, haes, hale, halo, haul, heal, heel, helo, hoes, hole, hols, hose, hues, hula, lase, lash, leas.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-l-o-s-u"
	+1 letter: alehouses.
	+2 letters: houseclean.
	+3 letters: barrelhouse, housecleans, leukorrheas.
	+4 letters: barrelhouses, heterosexual, housecleaned, overslaughed.
	+5 letters: autocephalies, clearinghouse, colleagueship, doubleheaders, heterosexuals, housecleaning, leptocephalus, methaqualones, polyurethanes, southeasterly, treacherously.
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