waterhouse

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Waterhouse¹

proper noun

  1. A surname. Nature reserves officer Paul Waterhouse said: "It's absolutely amazing, I never contemplated there might be a third or a fourth nest."
  2. A rural locality in Dorset local government area, north-east Tasmania, Australia.

waterhouse²

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From water + house.

noun waterhouses

  1. A house on floats. We'd live in a waterhouse. Not a houseboat. I didn't want any hint of the “B” word. A waterhouse is a home that floats.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: woodhouse, westwater, waterston, waterall, warter, whitehouse, rainwater, hayworth, whitehead, heacock, welham, waterworth, walley, houseworth, waters, hadaway

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@misc{waterhouse_2026,
  title = {waterhouse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/waterhouse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}