Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

big house

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.39 in modern English

Syllables
big -house
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Prison, jail.

Slang

noun

The workhouse.

Obsolete; Slang

noun

A religious building of the Delaware Indians, representing the cosmos.

noun

A plantation house

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, house.

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

big houses (plural) bighouse (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

longhouse

Questions

What does big house mean?
Prison, jail.

How to pronounce big house

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