brothel
noun/ˈbrɒθl/
/ˈbrɑːθl/
(also bordello especially in North American English)
- a house where people go to have sex in exchange for money
- He used to visit a brothel in Paris.
- She ran a brothel in Soho.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + brothel- go to
- visit
- run
- …
- keeper
- owner
- in a/the brothel
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally brothel-house): from late Middle English brothel ‘worthless man, prostitute’, related to Old English brēothan ‘degenerate, deteriorate’.Definitions on the go
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