bunkhouse

English

Alternative forms

• bunk house

Etymology

From bunk +‎ house.

Noun

bunkhouse (plural bunkhouses)

1. A building providing sleeping quarters for workers or guests, especially in a rural setting.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

     The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

Translations

A building providing sleeping quarters for workers

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工棚 (zh) (gōngpéng), 工寮 (gōngliáo)

• Galician: cafúa f
• Russian: общежи́тие (ru) n (obščežítije), бара́к (ru) m (barák)
• Serbo-Croatian: baraka (sh) f
• Spanish: barracón m