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bath·house

 (băth′hous′, bäth′-)
n.
1. A building with facilities for bathing.
2. A building with dressing rooms for swimmers.
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bathhouse

(ˈbɑːθˌhaʊs)
n
a building containing baths, esp for public use
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bath•house

(ˈbæθˌhaʊs, ˈbɑθ-)

n., pl. -hous•es (-ˌhaʊ zɪz)
1. a structure, as at the seaside, containing dressing rooms for bathers.
2. a building having bathing facilities.
[1695–1705]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.bathhouse - a building containing dressing rooms for bathersbathhouse - a building containing dressing rooms for bathers
building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
dressing room - a room in which you can change clothes
2.bathhouse - a building containing public bathsbathhouse - a building containing public baths  
house - a building in which something is sheltered or located; "they had a large carriage house"
sudatorium, sudatory - a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths
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Translations

bathhouse

[ˈbɑːθhaʊs] N (bathhouses (pl)) [ˈbɑːθhaʊzɪz]baño m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bathhouse

bath house [ˈbɑːθhaʊs] nbains mpl publics, bains-douches mpl
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bathhouse

n (old)Bad(e)haus nt (old)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
References in classic literature ?
The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse. Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts' yearnings beneath the children's tent, which they had found unoccupied.
The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular facade still in course of construction.
"Hinkydink" or "Bathhouse John," or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago, and also the "gray wolves" of the city council, who gave away the streets of the city to the businessmen; and those who patronized their places were the gamblers and prize fighters who set the law at defiance, and the burglars and holdup men who kept the whole city in terror.
Today, evergreen magnolias line Bathhouse Rows broad sidewalk, where visitors pause to read brief histories of the houses.
If it's warm, as in a Hungarian bathhouse, they reach the "fully descended state." It's as simple as that.
India did not consider their mansions complete unless they included a bathhouse with a steam room.
A Japanese college lecturer and two foreigners on Thursday filed a suit demanding that a bathhouse operator in Otaru, Hokkaido, and the Otaru municipal government pay 6 million yen in compensation after the bathhouse denied them entry, their lawyers said.
Carefully crafted shoji screens, hand-planed beams, and a tree-filtered view conjure visions of a serene Kyoto bathhouse.
When the Hotel Hale opens sometime next year in the old Hale Bathhouse, only one of the eight bathhouses on Hot Springs' Bathhouse Row will be empty.
I wasn't anticipating the peeping in a gay bathhouse, slap you in the face, text-text.