bathhouse

American  

[bath-haus, bahth-] / ˈbæθˌhaʊs, ˈbɑθ- /

noun

• bathhouses
  plural

1. a structure, as at the seaside, containing dressing rooms for bathers.

2. a building for bathing, sometimes equipped with swimming pools, medical baths, etc.

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bathhouse British  

/ ˈbɑːθˌhaʊs /

noun

1. a building containing baths, esp for public use

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bathhouses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bathhouse

First recorded in 1695–1705; bath ¹ + house

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Example Sentences

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bathhouse bathhouses

“There’s this mafia culture around the baths because you can’t get wiretapped in banyas,” says Leah Feygin, who runs Fluid Form, a Substack about Eastern European bathhouse culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

For more than seven decades, the Pico Boulevard bathhouse has been a gathering place for immigrants and, over the years, a destination for celebrities including John Belushi, Kobe Bryant and Joe DiMaggio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Other accidental discoveries in the city have included a 2,000-year-old Roman bathhouse.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

I opted for the Red Flower Hammam Experience, a luxurious take on the traditional bathhouse ritual.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026

Despite my busy night, I’d barely slept past sunrise, so I had easy access to the bathhouse.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

One street has become the neighborhood’s unofficial wellness avenue, where there’s just store after store of red-light therapy, bathhouses, and microneedling.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

I made it a butterfly because the show is about these bathhouses that have pingpong, and Butterfly is a really famous table tennis brand.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

All over Japan, restaurants, cafeterias, bathhouses and other businesses are facing a similar prospect.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

The sauna, with its Scandinavian origins, has long been popular at spas and bathhouses throughout the United States, but the concept of a floating sauna is more novel.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

Piles of rock are everywhere, looking like once-grand theaters and bathhouses.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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