fraternity house
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- noun
- /frəˈtɜrnɪti haʊs/
- US
:
casa de fraternidad
- After classes, the members gathered for a meeting at the fraternity house to discuss upcoming events.
- fraternity house on campus
- fraternity house party
- live in a fraternity house
Examples
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There are 41 young men in this picture taken in front of their fraternity house.
Fiction book (1999) -
Rutherford's hand under my elbow steered me back to his fraternity house, where everyone was clustered around several TVs, talking too loud.
Fiction book (1991) -
Okay, well, this will be our fraternity house.
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We tried the fraternity house where he had once been.
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However, we had many rooms empty and could use rent money to keep the fraternity house open.
Blog text (5) -
And, finally, is the fraternity house located on campus or off campus?
Academic text (2008) -
I've never been in a fraternity house before.
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Now I go to my fraternity house, the Delt House, the end of that sophomore year for sophomore exams.
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I moved into a co-ed fraternity house largely populated by computer science majors, actually.
Blog text (22) -
Freshman year, everybody went to mixers, where freshman boys, generally as ill at ease as we were, stood nervously about in the social rooms of their fraternity houses, wearing navy-blue blazers, ties, and chinos.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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A house near a college where members of a student group live and meet
A house where members of a fraternity live and meet
How Communal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a house used as a residence by members of a college fraternity' is directly and compositionally derived from 'fraternity' (a student social organization) + 'house' (a building to live in). While there is a cultural-specific US college nuance (often an official or communal residence), the core sense is predictable from the constituents and thus accessible to a learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Fraternity house comes from college groups called fraternities, a word that means 'brothers' because members treat each other like family, and the house is the building where they live and meet. So it means 'a house where members of a college fraternity live and gather'.