bunkhouse
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈbʌŋkˌhaʊs/
:
barracón
- Each guest was assigned a bed in the shared bunkhouse for their stay in the remote lodge.
Examples
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Stay in the bunkhouse.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allowed us to use their bunkhouse at the Yukon Delta Wildlife Refuge in Bethel.
Academic text (1997) -
Go to your bunkhouse and stay there.
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The bunkhouse is staff only.
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A meeting is in progress in the bunkhouse that morning.
Fiction book (1993) -
You go get the medicines from the bunkhouse.
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The fire in the big iron stove in the middle of the bunkhouse had gone out.
Fiction book (2002) -
On this property, there is a bunkhouse and some large corrals to handle cattle.
Academic text (1992) -
Ethan, you're going to sleep in the bunkhouse.
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The canneries offered boarding in the form of bunkhouses, which also reflected the racial divisions of the time.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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1.0
A small simple building where people live or stay
34
2.1
A cheap place for travelers or students to sleep, often with shared rooms and facilities
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2.5
A small building near a house where visitors stay
10
3.0
A large room with many beds where people sleep, for example at a camp
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2.2
A large sleeping room in a school or other place shared by several people
A small simple cabin used for guests or camping
Buildings where soldiers live and sleep
A building that offers rooms for people to stay for a short time
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bunkhouse comes from the two words bunk and house; bunk means 'bed' and house means 'building', so a bunkhouse is a simple building with beds for several people.