settlement house

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   a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services

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Questions about settlement house

What does settlement house mean?

settlement house means "a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services".

Is settlement house a common word?

settlement 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.