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🏭 A sugar factory 🍁 A maple syrup hut
sugarhouse

sugarhouse

5.0
A building where people boil maple sap to make syrup
  • noun
  • /ˈʃʊɡərˌhaʊs/
  • US
translation icon : casa de azúcar
  • The sugarhouse was bustling with activity during the syrup season.
  • syrup from the sugarhouse
  • sugarhouse tours

Examples

  • During the festival, children learned about the process inside the sugarhouse.

  • Each spring, families visit the sugarhouse to see how maple syrup is made.

  • The old sugarhouse on the farm fills the air with the sweet smell of boiling sap.

  • Many sugarhouses open their doors for tours in the spring.

  • In early spring, we visited the sugarhouse to watch the process of turning sap into syrup.

  • The sugarhouse was filled with the sweet aroma of boiling maple sap during the harvest season.

  • Families gathered at the sugarhouse for tours and to taste fresh maple syrup on pancakes.

Surface Forms

sugarhouse singular
sugarhouses plural

Morphology

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

The compound denotes a building where sugar (in this case from maple sap) is produced, a direct and literal combination of 'sugar' + 'house'.

Etymology

The word sugarhouse is made of sugar and house, with 'sugar' meaning the sweet product and house meaning a building. In places with maple trees, a sugarhouse is the building where people boil maple sap to make maple syrup or sugar.