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poorhouse
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Word definitions for poorhouse in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A poorhouse or workhouse is a government-run (usually by a county or municipality ) facility to support and provide housing for the dependent and/or needy.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an establishment maintained at public expense in order to provide housing for the poor and homeless
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A charitable institution where poor or homeless people are lodged 2 A workhouse
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1781, from poor (n.) + house (n.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poorhouse \Poor"house`\, n. A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At best she'd be back in the poorhouse while he ... it didn't bear thinking of. ▪ Having exhausted her savings, Annie Taylor now faced the poorhouse . ▪ Sanitation was primitive and the poorhouses in regular use. ▪ When that ...
Usage examples of poorhouse.
It seemed as though they would have to go to the poorhouse but Frank could not become reconciled to that.
CHAPTER XXII CONCLUSION Meanwhile poor Grace had fared badly at the poorhouse in Crawford.
More important, it had kept Gracie from ending up in the county poorhouse, where, as Nell knew all too well, she would have been lucky to survive to her first birthday.
My brother Jamie introduced us when I was still at the county poorhouse in Barnstable.
The poorest people in the town, the paupers in the poorhouse, thought of her as a personal friend to whom they could turn for sympathy and help.
Nobody knew who he was or where he came from, and consequently he was put in the local poorhouse, there to remain until he was nine years old.
The poorhouse was empty by the time she got there every day, so no one bothered her.
If it rained, the wash would have to be hung inside the poorhouse, and it would take all day to dry.
Sheena had been there in the late afternoon when the poorhouse started to fill.
She doesna live at the poorhouse, but gives her time there, as others like her do.
He had searched everywhere for Erminia MacEwen, even spent half a day at the poorhouse, set upon by beggars.
I was returning from a visit to the poorhouse in Bristol at a time when I was quite desperate.
The back windows looked out on the dead wall of a poorhouse of some kind, the front on rows of similar windows opposite--rows of the same sort of windows that run for miles and miles in London.
There was only David between them and the poorhouse, as far as I could see.
Juliet made Elsbeth visit the poorhouses in town, where they bring those good people huge baskets of foodstuffsshe reminds me so of you sometimes.