BROTHEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brothel mean? 

• BROTHEL (noun)
  The noun BROTHEL has 1 sense:

1. a building where prostitutes are available

  Familiarity information: BROTHEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROTHEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A building where prostitutes are available

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bagnio; bawdyhouse; bordello; brothel; cathouse; house of ill repute; house of prostitution; sporting house; whorehouse

Hypernyms ("brothel" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brothel"):

massage parlor (a place where illicit sex is available under the guise of therapeutic massage)

 Context examples 

I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a grey, florid man with a hard empty face—the pioneer debauchee who during one phase of American life brought back to the eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)