chapterhouse

1. 1.

   a building attached to a monastery or cathedral; used as a meeting place for the chapter

   Broaderbuilding
2. 2.

   a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity

   Synonymsfraternity housefrat house

   Broaderhouse

Other forms of chapterhouse

plural

chapterhouses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chapterhouse

What does chapterhouse mean?

chapterhouse means "a building attached to a monastery or cathedral; used as a meeting place for the chapter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chapterhouse?

chapterhouse has 3 syllables: chap-ter-house. The stress falls on "chap".

What is another word for chapterhouse?

Close synonyms include fraternity house, frat house. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chapterhouse a common word?

chapterhouse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.