statehouse
- noun
- /ˈsteɪtˌhaʊs/
- US
- More than two-thirds of these laws were passed by Republican-controlled statehouses, though often with bipartisan support.
- Ohio Statehouse
Examples
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The state representatives met in the statehouse to discuss the new education bill.
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When the Whigs captured the statehouse with George Gilmer in 1837, the issue of the railway assumed wide support and significance.
Academic text (2007) -
"I cannot stress enough how proud we at the statehouse are of you."
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The following year, there was talk about closing him down again, about taking the matter to the statehouse.
Fiction book (2001) -
There's political pressure right up to the statehouse on this thing.
Fiction book (1995) -
Mah promised to remain active at the Statehouse in monitoring the effects.
Blog text (23) -
They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, and the city halls.
Blog text (33) -
As a boy, Higginbotham attended the Ewing Park Grammar School, not far from the New Jersey statehouse.
Academic text (1996) -
There is a single reason why fixed-tuition models have been proposed and adopted by campuses and statehouses:
Academic text (2007) -
Capitol Square is a 10-acre, state-owned plaza surrounding the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
A building where state lawmakers meet to make laws
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Statehouse is a simple compound of state (meaning 'the government of a state') and house (meaning 'a building'). So a statehouse is literally the state's house — the building where a state's government meets and makes laws.