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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples..
They marched in under French Colours and were conducted into the Long House.
We met in Council at the Long House.
One branch of this numerous people was seated on a beautiful river, known as the “Lonapewihittuck”, where the “long house,” or Great Council Fire, of the nation was universally admitted to be established.
The practice of herding together in ‘long houses’ prevents mental and moral improvement and hinders advance in gardening and planting and agricultural developement generally.
The Kenyah village frequently consists of a single long house.
The Welsh long-houses […] with long sides and opposite doors providing a passage from side to side, and dividing the building roughly in two.
The longhouse is an object lesson in community living.
One day our neighbours came back from a trip into the jungle to visit relatives who still lived in an old-style "long house".
Use longhouse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Longhouse means A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples..
Common synonyms include backhouse, backside, bog, boggard.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They marched in under French Colours and were conducted into the Long House.
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