Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

field house

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.11 in modern English

Syllables: field- -house
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

A large building for indoor sports, particularly at colleges.

Canadian usage; American usage

noun

A building for equipment storage and changing rooms (locker rooms) by an outdoor sports field.

Canadian usage; American usage

Example Sentences

"There were herds of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house."

Etymology

From Middle English *feldhous, from Old English feldhūs (“a tent”), equivalent to field + house. Modern sense is from 1895, originally, a side building by an outdoor sports field, later used for large buildings for indoor sports.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *feldhous, feldhūs

Usage

Canadian usage
American usage

Inflected Forms

field houses (plural) fieldhouse (alternative)

Synonyms

sports arena

Questions

What does field house mean?: A tent.
Where does field house come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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