field house
See also: fieldhouse
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English *feldhous, from Old English feldhūs (“a tent”), equivalent to field + house. Modern sense is from 1895,[1] originally, a side building by an outdoor sports field, later used for large buildings for indoor sports.
Noun edit
field house (plural field houses)
- (rare) A tent.
- (Canada, US) A large building for indoor sports, particularly at colleges.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
- There were herds of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house.
- (Canada, US) A building for equipment storage and changing rooms (locker rooms) by an outdoor sports field.
References edit
- ^ “field house”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.