sporting house

Questions about sporting house

What does sporting house mean?

sporting house means "a building where prostitutes are available".

What is another word for sporting house?

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 sporting house a common word?

sporting 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.