"deaconess-house" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: deaconess-houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} deaconess-house (plural deaconess-houses)
  1. (chiefly historical) A house inhabited or operated by deaconesses, providing basic medical attention, care for the poor and sick etc. Tags: historical Synonyms: deaconess house Translations (house inhabited by deaconesses): diaconessenhuis [neuter] (Dutch), diakonessenhuis [neuter] (Dutch), maison des diaconesses [feminine] (French), maison des diaconisses [feminine] (French), Diakonissenhaus [neuter] (German), Diaconissenhaus (note: obsolete spelling) [neuter] (German), Diakonissenmutterhaus [neuter] (German), Diaconissenmutterhaus (note: obsolete spelling) [neuter] (German), Diakonissen-Mutterhaus [neuter] (German), Diaconissen-Mutterhaus (note: obsolete spelling) [neuter] (German), Diakonissenanstalt [feminine] (German), Diaconissenanstalt (note: obsolete spelling) [feminine] (German), diakonissehus [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), diakonisseheim [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), diakonissehjem [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), diakonisseanstalt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), diakonissehus [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), diakonisseheim [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), diakonisseanstalt [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), diakonisshus [neuter] (Swedish), diakonisshem [neuter] (Swedish), diakonissanstalt [common-gender] (Swedish)

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