common house

== English == === Noun === common house (plural common houses) (obsolete) A guildhall. (obsolete) A town or city hall. (Politics, obsolete) The House of Commons. (architecture, obsolete) The calefactory: the site of the common fire of a medieval monastery. (obsolete) An outhouse. (obsolete) A brothel. ==== Synonyms ==== (guild hall): See guildhall (town hall): See town hall (Commons): See House of Commons (site of the shared monastic fire): See calefactory (outhouse): commons, House of Commons; see also Thesaurus:outhouse (brothel): See Thesaurus:brothel ==== Hypernyms ==== house (partly structural only) === References === "† common house, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1891), Oxford: Oxford University Press.