fraternity house
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fraternity house
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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We had one event in a fraternity house backyard in Virginia, we had events in Mexico City and Montreal … canned food drives, blood drives or, you know, register to vote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
So we looked up the phone number, called the fraternity house and asked for him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
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 student left the fraternity house on his own, but later went to a hospital emergency room.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 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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