firehouse
nounEtymology From fire + house.
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Firefighting, Government US A fire station
- Derived terms
- firehouse caucus, firehouse primary
firehouse
nounEtymology From Middle English firhous, fyrehous, from Old English fȳrhūs (“a fire-house, a room with a fire; furnace”), equivalent to fire + house. Compare Icelandic eldhús (“kitchen”).
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Dialectal A house containing a fire to heat it; a dwelling-house, as opposed to a barn, a stable, or other outhouse.