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say it: PAK-ing-hows
packinghouse is a noun meaning "a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed". It is pronounced /ˈpækɪŋˌhaʊs/ — PAK-ing-hows. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed
“they came from an apple packinghouse”
a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for packinghouse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.