deck-house

1. 1.

   a superstructure on the upper deck of a ship

   Broadersuperstructure

   Part ofupper deck

Questions about deck-house

What does deck-house mean?

deck-house means "a superstructure on the upper deck of a ship".

How many syllables are in deck-house?

deck-house has 2 syllables and divides as deck--house under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is deck-house a common word?

deck-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.