"doss-house" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: doss-houses [plural]
Etymology: From doss + house. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|doss|house}} doss + house Head templates: {{en-noun}} doss-house (plural doss-houses)
  1. A place where homeless people can sleep for the night. Categories (topical): Housing Synonyms: flophouse, dosshouse, doss house Translations (sleeping-place for the homeless): прыту́лак (prytúlak) [masculine] (Belarusian), начле́жка (načljéžka) [feminine] (Belarusian), прыю́т (pryjút) [masculine] (Belarusian), нощен приют (nošten prijut) [masculine] (Bulgarian), прию́т (prijút) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 廉價旅館 (Chinese Mandarin), 廉价旅馆 (liánjià lǚguǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), nachtopvang [masculine] (Dutch), yömaja (Finnish), asile de nuit [masculine] (French), asile [masculine] (French), Absteige [feminine] (German), Penne [feminine] (German), どや (doya) (Japanese), 安宿 (yasuyado) (alt: やすやど) (Japanese), ӿуӈгуф (huŋguf) (Nivkh), شبخانه (šab-xâne) (Persian), noclegownia [feminine] (Polish), ночле́жка (nočléžka) [feminine] (Russian), ночле́жный дом (nočléžnyj dom) [masculine] (Russian), прию́т (prijút) [masculine] (Russian), ночно́й прию́т (nočnój prijút) [masculine] (Russian), прихватилиште [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), свратиште [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), prihvatilište [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), svratište [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), albergue [masculine] (Spanish), приту́лок (prytúlok) [masculine] (Ukrainian), нічлі́жка (ničlížka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), прию́т (pryjút) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

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          "text": "W. Besant\nThey [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy."
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          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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          "word": "Absteige"
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          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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        },
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          "roman": "doya",
          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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          "roman": "huŋguf",
          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
          "word": "ӿуӈгуф"
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          "roman": "šab-xâne",
          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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          "word": "noclegownia"
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          "roman": "nočléžka",
          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "ночле́жка"
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          "roman": "nočléžnyj dom",
          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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          "word": "ночле́жный дом"
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          "roman": "nočnój prijút",
          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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          "word": "ночно́й прию́т"
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          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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          "word": "albergue"
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "prytúlok",
          "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "приту́лок"
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          "roman": "ničlížka",
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      "word": "Absteige"
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      "word": "ночле́жка"
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      "roman": "nočléžnyj dom",
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      "word": "ночно́й прию́т"
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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      "word": "прихватилиште"
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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      "word": "свратиште"
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      "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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      "word": "prihvatilište"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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      "word": "svratište"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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      "word": "albergue"
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
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      "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "приту́лок"
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ničlížka",
      "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "нічлі́жка"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pryjút",
      "sense": "sleeping-place for the homeless",
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      "word": "прию́т"
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  "word": "doss-house"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.