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Firehouse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See fire station.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A fire station

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. a building housing firemen and the apparatus they use to extinguish fires.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A house containing a fire; a dwelling-house, as opposed to a barn, stable, or other outhouse.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a station housing fire apparatus and firemen

Word Usage

"Now, what I would do -- not that I'm king of the world -- but if I were Howard Dean or Donna Brazile, our pal, who is on the rules committee I would have what they call a firehouse caucus."

Hypernym

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station

Synonym

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fire station

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