house of prostitution

Questions about house of prostitution

What does house of prostitution mean?

house of prostitution means "a building where prostitutes are available".

What is another word for house of prostitution?

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

house of prostitution 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.