fraternity house
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fraternity house
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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So we looked up the phone number, called the fraternity house and asked for him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
In Iowa over the summer, he doled out Blizzard ice cream treats to customers at a Dairy Queen and hung out at a fraternity house while tossing footballs into the crowd.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
He described playing “lots of board games” when he lived in an alcohol-free, “nerdy” fraternity house at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a physics degree in 2014.
From Reuters ● Oct. 30, 2023
The former president showed up at the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house, an agriculture fraternity at Iowa State, on Saturday afternoon.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 9, 2023
Two hours later, I was standing in a fraternity house in Central Campus wondering why I had agreed to come out.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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