limehouse
/ˈlʌɪmhaʊs/noun
limehouse is a noun meaning “An oast house that uses a limekiln” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-M-E-H-O-U-S-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of limehouse is limehouses.
What does limehouse mean?
noun
- 1
An oast house that uses a limekiln.
verb
- 1
UKdatedTo make a fiery political speech.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce limehouse?
- UK /ˈlʌɪmhaʊs/
Limehouse has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of limehouse
- limehouses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is limehouse?
Limehouse appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does limehouse come from?
From lime + house.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).