outhouseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• out-house (archaic)

語源

From 中期英語 outhous, equivalent to out- +‎ house. Compare Old Norse úthús (“outhouse”).

発音

• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈaʊthaʊs/
• ハイフネーション: out‧house

名詞

outhouse (plural outhouses)

1. (Canada, US) An outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.
2. (dated) Any outbuilding: any small structure located apart from a main building.
   • 1902, E. Nesbit, Five Children and It:

     The children had explored the gardens and the outhouses thoroughly before they were caught and cleaned for tea, and they saw quite well that they were certain to be happy at the White House.

   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine‎:

     There was a considerable outhouse, which he unlocked and we entered.

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     […] plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses

   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:

     Dumbledore pointed toward a run-down stone outhouse where the Weasleys kept their broomsticks.

同意語

• (outer building used for urination and defecation): See Thesaurus:outhouse
• (any small outer building): See outbuilding

上位語

• house

派生語

動詞

outhouse (third-person singular simple present outhouses, present participle outhousing, simple past and past participle outhoused)

1. (transitive) To house in a separate building.
   • 1969, Great Britain. National Libraries Committee, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Report of the National Libraries Committee (page 85)

     In our discussion of outhousing we have tried to take into account the inconvenience to users as well as the potential savings in costs.

   • 1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 28, page 38:

     The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building.