Roadhouse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɹəʊdˌhaʊs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Roadhouse is a noun meaning (theater) A receiving house.
Meaning
(theater) A receiving house.
More Meanings
- (Australia) A truck stop located in a remote area, with basic accommodation facilities.
- (chiefly US) An inn or similar establishment situated beside a road beyond the jurisdiction of a town or city. In the centuries before motor vehicles, such inns were places for travellers to stop at night during multi-day journeys, besides being public houses for their local countryfolk.
Example Sentences
Near-synonym: coaching inn (often synonymous, historically)
The pub was a classic 1930s 'roadhouse'. To the railway's official mindset, it might as well have been an opium den in Victorian London.
Word Forms
- roadhouses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include relay, relais, relays, resthouse, ranchhouse, road.
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