slaughterhouse

English

Etymology

From slaughter +‎ house.

Pronunciation

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Noun

slaughterhouse (plural slaughterhouses)

1. A place where animals are slaughtered.

   Synonym: abattoir

2. (figuratively) The scene of a massacre.
   • 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 20:09 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:

     The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.

Synonyms

• (place where animals are slaughtered): abattoir, shambles (archaic)

Hyponyms

• packinghouse

Related terms

• slaughter
• slaughterer
• slaughterous

Translations

abattoir — see abattoir

scene of a massacre

• Bulgarian: кланица (bg) f (klanica)
• Finnish: teurastamo (fi)
• French: abattoir (fr)
• Greek: σφαγείο (el) n (sfageío)
• Japanese: 修羅場 (ja) (shuraba)
• Macedonian: кланица f (klanica)
• Polish: rzeźnia (pl) f
• Russian: бо́йня (ru) f (bójnja), резня́ (ru) f (reznjá), мясору́бка (ru) f (mjasorúbka)
• Serbo-Croatian: klaonica (sh) f, klanica (sh) f

See also

• knacker's yard
• killing floor