bathhouse

Meaning

Noun

• A building with baths for communal use.
• A building where swimmers can change clothes.
• A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.

Origin

• From Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs, equivalent to bath + house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis, German Badehaus, Danish badehus, Swedish badhus.