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Definition: Pothouse |
PothouseNoun1. (British) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pothouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: PothouseSynonyms: gin mill (n), pub (n), public house (n), saloon (n), taphouse (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pothouse |
| English words defined with "pothouse": Mughouse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pothouse": Penny Lattice-house. (references) |
| "Pothouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pothouse" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "pothouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pijetore (boozer, grogshop, hotel, pub, watering place), tavernë (tavern), mejhane (dive, greasy spoon, joint, tavern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | долнопробна кръчма (dive, honky tonk, jerry shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καπηλειό (grogshop, pub, public house, tavern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | othousepay espécie de bar (pub), cervejaria (alehouse, beerhouse, brewery, brewing house, gin-mill, pub, public house), casa de vinhos (pub, public house). (various references) пивная (alehouse, ale-house, barrel house, barrel shop, beerhouse, dram-shop, gin mill, gin-shop, hostelry, mug-house, porterhouse, pot-house, pub, public house, rathskeller, taphouse, taproom, watering hole). (various references) krčma (inn, public house, saloon, taphouse). (various references) ölsjapp (beerhouse). (various references) ucuz meyhane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pothouse": pothouses. (additional references) | |
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"Pothouse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lohoues, Peghouse, pithouse, poolhouse, porthouse, Posthouse, Pothinus, pothmouse, potous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: housetop. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-o-o-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: upshoot. | |
-2 letters: ouphes, photos, soothe, tophes, tophus, upshot. | |
-3 letters: estop, ethos, hoops, hoots, hopes, house, ouphe, ouphs, pesto, photo, phots, phuts, poets, poohs, pouts, setup, shoot, shote, shout, shute, sooth, south, spout, stoop, stope, stoup, stupe, those, thous, topes, tophe, tophs, topos, touse, upset. | |
-4 letters: epos, eths, hest, hets, hoes, hoop, hoot, hope, hops. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-o-o-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: housetops, pothouses. | |
+2 letters: phototubes, pilothouse. | |
+3 letters: homopterous, pilothouses, porterhouse, supersmooth. | |
+4 letters: autohypnoses, autotrophies, auxotrophies, photoreduces, porterhouses, urethroscope. | |
+5 letters: autocephalous, boustrophedon, claustrophobe, electrophorus, entomophagous, entomophilous, hematophagous, heteropterous, heterosporous, hymenopterous, luteotrophins, mycetophagous, photocurrents, photogravures, phycomycetous, thermocouples, thermophilous, urethroscopes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 74 68 6F 75 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- - .... --- ..- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o t h o u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0074 0068 006F 0075 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081867481878571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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