outhouse

[out-hous] /ˈaʊtˌhaʊs/
noun, plural outhouses
[out-hou-ziz] /ˈaʊtˌhaʊ zɪz/ (Show IPA)
1.
an outbuilding with one or more seats and a pit serving as a toilet; privy.
2.
any outbuilding.
Origin
1525-35; out- + house
Examples from the web for outhouse
  • Shared facilities include an outhouse type toilet and a bucket shower.
  • The outhouse, or privy, was the outdoor toilet as indoor plumbing was not feasible.
  • There is an outhouse, but you should bring your own toilet paper.
  • Keeping the telephone in an unheated shanty in a field, or even an outhouse, was keeping the phone in its proper place.
  • The only facility the soviet had was an outhouse, and the pensioner was its attendant.
  • Notice the two outhouse towers constructed for the royal party's convenience.
  • The outhouse in the barn has one double-occupancy stall.
  • Recently you've been tanning animal hides and now you're building your own outhouse.
  • Each site features a covered picnic table, a fire ring and an outhouse.
  • The campground has vault outhouse toilets, but no showering facilities.
British Dictionary definitions for outhouse

outhouse

/ˈaʊtˌhaʊs/
noun
1.
a building near to, but separate from, a main building; outbuilding
2.
(US) an outside lavatory
Word Origin and History for outhouse
n.

early 14c., "shed, outbuilding," from out + house (n.). Sense of "a privy" (principally American English) is first attested 1819.