Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

the other place

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.58 in modern English

Syllables: the other -place
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

the other house of a bicameral legislature (used by members of one house when speaking in their own house); in the UK, the House of Lords seen from the House of Commons or vice versa; in Canada, the Senate seen from the House of Commons or vice versa.

noun

University of Cambridge

British usage; Derogatory

noun

University of Oxford

British usage; Derogatory

Example Sentences

"According to Christianity, when someone dies, they go to either Heaven or the other place."
"[W]e all trooped from our end of the building to the House of Lords - which I'm told, for some reason, we must never refer to by name. We have to call it 'another place' or 'the other place'[.]"

Usage

British usage
Derogatory

Phrases

another place the other body

Frequently Paired Words

another place the other body

Questions

What does the other place mean?: Hell

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