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Definition: Slaughterhouse |
SlaughterhouseNoun1. A building where animals are butchered. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slaughterhouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Place where the killing of animals for human consumption takes place. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir from the French word "abattre" (to strike down), is a facility where animals are killed and processed into meat products.An older term for a slaughterhouse is a "shambles"; there are streets named "The Shambles" in some English towns (e.g. Worcester, York) which got their name from having at some time been the location of a slaughterhouse.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Slaughterhouse."
Synonyms: SlaughterhouseSynonyms: abattoir (n), butchery (n), shambles (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Killing | Slaughtering; phthisozoics; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Slaughterhouse |
| Specialty definitions using "slaughterhouse": occupational protein contact dermatitis, ovine or caprine animals for slaughter ♦ specified offals ban. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's a God damned one-man slaughterhouse, that's what he is. Four more to go (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Slaughterhouse Rock (1988) | |
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Persons in high-risk professions, such as veterinarians and slaughterhouse workers, have an increased chance of contracting the virus from an infected animal. (references) | |
Trade | Germany | Soon after this ban went into effect, an agreement was reached between the United States and the EU that allows American producers of beef from animals not treated with hormones to export to the EU. Under the terms of this agreement, the cattle must come from an EU-approved source, and the animals must be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse that has been approved by the EU for handling untreated beef. (references) |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | The law prohibits children from working in hazardous sectors, including maritime, plantation, construction, slaughterhouse, textile, leatherworking, entertainment, and manufacturing activities involving the use of hazardous materials and pollutants. (references) |
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| "Slaughterhouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slaughterhouse" is used about 73 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% | 73 | 39,105 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "slaughterhouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | abattoir (abattoir). (various references) | |
Albanian | thertore (abattoir, butchery, sacrificial, shambles). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسلخ (butchery), مذبح (altar), مجزر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скотобойна (abattoir), сеч (butchery, carnage, massacre, slaughter), касапница (hecatomb, shambles, slaughter), кланица (abattoir, butchery, shambles). (various references) | |
Chinese | 宰场. (various references) | |
Czech | jatky (abattoir, butchery, shambles). (various references) | |
Danish | slagteri (abattoir, meat plant, slaughter-house). (various references) | |
Dutch | slachthuis (abattoir). (various references) | |
Esperanto | buĉejo (abattoir). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسلخ , کشتارگاه (Abattoir, Shambles), قصاب خانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | teurastamo (abattoir, slaughter-house). (various references) | |
French | abattoir (slaughter house). (various references) | |
German | Schlachthof (abattoir, slaughter house), Schlachthaus (abattoir, slaughter house). (various references) | |
Greek | σφαγείο (abattoir, shambles, slaughter house). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטבחים (abattoir), בית מטבחים (abattoir). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vágóhíd (abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughter house). (various references) | |
Italian | mattatoio (abattoir, shambles, slaughter house), macello (abattoir, butchery, massacre, shambles, slaughter). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 所 , . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | としょ (books), とじょう (attendance at a castle, en route, half way). (various references) | |
Korean | 도살장. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aughterhouseslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | matadouro (abattoir, butcher's shop, shamble, shambles). (various references) | |
Russian | бойня (abattoir, butchery, killings, massacre, shambles). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | klanica (abattoir, butchery, shambles). (various references) | |
Spanish | matadero (abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouses). (various references) | |
Swedish | slakteri (abattoir). (various references) | |
Turkish | toplu katliam (hecatomb, slaughter), mezbaha (abattoir, butchery, packing house, shambles, slaughter house), kesimhane, kıyım (chopping, mincing, pogrom, slaughter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | місце кровопролиття, бойня (abattoir, butchery, holocaust, shambles). (various references) | |
Welsh | lladd-dy (abattoir). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | macerecre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slaughterhouse": slaughterhouses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slaughterhouse" (pronounced slô"terhou's) |
| 4 | -er h ou' s | firehouse, powerhouse. |
| 3 | -h ou' s | alehouse, boardinghouse, boathouse, clearinghouse, clubhouse, coffeehouse, courthouse, doghouse, dollhouse, farmhouse, greenhouse, guesthouse, henhouse, hothouse, jailhouse, lighthouse, longhouse, madhouse, outhouse, packinghouse, penthouse, Playhouse, poorhouse, roadhouse, roundhouse, schoolhouse, 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-g-h-h-l-o-r-s-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: slaughterous. | |
-3 letters: horselaughs. | |
-4 letters: gatehouses, guesthouse, horselaugh, houseguest, otherguess, slaughters, sugarhouse, trehaloses. | |
-5 letters: alehouses, authoress, gatehouse, goulashes, heartless, heathless, helotages, hostelers, hourglass, laughters, oleasters, outargues, outglares, outgushes, outlaughs, outrushes, regulates, reguluses, resalutes, resolutes, sheathers, shortages, slaughter, stegosaur, teahouses, thesaurus, trehalose, trousseau. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-h-h-l-o-r-s-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: slaughterhouses. | |
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