almshouse
noun
alms·house
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Definition of almshouse
1
British
: a privately financed home for the poor
2
: poorhouse
Examples of almshouse in a Sentence
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Day 3: Visit the Hospices de Beaune, the stunning 15th-century almshouse that’s a museum for much of the year but transforms into the home base of the grandest wine auction in the world on the third Sunday of every November. — Hugh Garvey, Condé Nast Traveler, "Road Trip: 3 Days in Burgundy, France," 23 Mar. 2018 The 148-acre isle—on the East River between Manhattan and Queens—has been home to a prison, a smallpox hospital, an asylum, an almshouse and a 1970s experiment in affordable middle-class housing. — WSJ, "Campus of the Future," 16 Sep. 2017 Herald Harbor is still called Herald Harbor, but in the 1960s, Woodland Beach dubbed itself London Towne, the name of an earlier settlement on the peninsula and of a Colonial-era almshouse there. — John Kelly, Washington Post, "Answer Man remembers when D.C. newspapers had their own summer resorts," 1 July 2017 The almshouse was built in 1857 on a 256-acre farm, now occupied by sites such as the Equestrian Center and the Harford County Parks & Recreation Department headquarters. — David Anderson, The Aegis, "Cemetery for Harford County's poor given new life for Eagle Scout project," 16 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'almshouse.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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almshouse
noun
English Language Learners Definition of almshouse
in the past
: a building in which poor people were allowed to live for free
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