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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Char•ter•house (chär′tər hous′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -hous•es (-hou′ziz).USA pronunciation - Religiona Carthusian monastery.
- the hospital and charitable institution founded in London, in 1611, on the site of a Carthusian monastery.
- the public school into which this hospital was converted.
- the modern heir of this school, now located in Surrey.
- Anglo-French chartrouse (taken as charter + house), after Chatrousse, village in Dauphiné near which the order was founded; see Carthusian, whence the first r of the Anglo-French word
- late Middle English 1400–50
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