house of ill repute

Questions about house of ill repute

What does house of ill repute mean?

house of ill repute means "a building where prostitutes are available".

What is another word for house of ill repute?

Close synonyms include whorehouse, brothel, bordello, bagnio, house of prostitution. 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 house of ill repute a common word?

house of ill repute 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.