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sugarhouse

sugarhouse

4.0
A building where people make sugar from sugarcane or sugar beets
  • noun
  • /ˈʃʊɡərˌhaʊs/
  • US
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  • The workers at the sugarhouse carefully processed the sugarcane into fine sugar.

Examples

  • After the harvest, the sugarhouse converted large amounts of sugar beets into granulated sugar.

  • "The sugarhouse my dad ran was south of there, near a place called Limonar."

    Fiction book (2002)

  • In the sugarhouse, they monitor the temperature to ensure the sugar refining process is successful.

Synonyms

sugar refinery
vssugarhouse
1 3.7

A factory that turns raw sugar into clean white sugar

focuses on processing from cane or beet as well as refining

How Big

sugarhouse
  • US
4.0

Surface Forms

sugarhouse singular
sugarhouses plural

Morphology

sugarhouse = sugar + house (transparent) = sugar + house

The compound literally denotes a building associated with sugar processing; the relation is directly derivable from 'sugar' + 'house'.

Etymology

The word sugarhouse is the simple combination of sugar and house, where 'sugar' came into English long ago from words in other languages such as Arabic and Hindi for the sweet crystals and house means a building. So a sugarhouse is literally the building where sugar from cane or beets is processed and refined.