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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A poorhouse.
  2. n. Chiefly British A home for the poor that is maintained by private charity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A house appropriated for the use of the poor who are supported by the public or by a revenue derived from private endowment; a poor-house. In the United States almshouse and poorhouse are synonymous, meaning only a house for the common residence ‘of the publicly supported paupers of a town or county. In Great Britain almshouses are generally a number of small dwellings built together, supported by private endowment, for the use of respectable persons reduced to poverty, buildings for public paupers being called workhouses or poorhouses.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish. Originally founded by the Church. Usually a charity relying on donations for funding.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.

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