death house

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   the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution

   Synonymsdeath row

   Broadercellblock

Questions about death house

What does death house mean?

death house means "the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution".

What is another word for death house?

Close synonyms include death row. 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 death house a common word?

death house 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.