English
Etymology
From ice + house.
Pronunciation
Noun
icehouse (plural icehouses)
- A deep cellar or outdoor building used for the storage of ice or snow; sometimes also used to store food at low temperature.
- Coordinate terms: ice well, icebox, springhouse, root cellar
- (US, colloquial) An ice hockey rink.
- (climatology) A cold state in global climate.
- Antonyms: greenhouse, hothouse
- (Texas) A convenience store.
Translations
a deep cellar or outdoor building used for the storage of ice
- Arabic: بَيْت جَلِيد m (bayt jalīd), بَيْت الْجَلِيد m (bayt al-jalīd) (definite)
- Azerbaijani: buzxana
- Belarusian: лядо́ўня f (ljadównja), лядо́ўнік m (ljadównik)
- Bulgarian: ледни́ца f (ledníca)
- Catalan: nevera (ca) f, poua (ca) f, pou de glaç m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 冰窖 (zh) (bīngjiào)
- Czech: ledárna f
- Danish: iskælder c, ishus (da) n
- Dutch: ijsruimte f
- Estonian: jääkelder
- Finnish: jääkellari
- French: glacière (fr) f
- German: Eiskeller m, Eishaus n
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Icelandic: íshús (is) n
- Italian: neviera f, ghiacciaia f
- Japanese: 氷室 (ja) (ひむろ, himuro, ひょうしつ, hyōshitsu)
- Korean: 빙실(氷室) (ko) (bingsil)
- Lithuanian: ledainė f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: iskjeller m, ishus n
- Nynorsk: iskjellar m, ishus n
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: یَخْچال (yaxčâl), سَرْدْخانِه (sardxâne)
- Plautdietsch: Iesshus n
- Polish: lodownia (pl) f
- Romanian: ghețărie (ro) f
- Russian: ле́дник (ru) m (lédnik)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лѐдара f
- Latin: lèdara (sh) f
- Slovak: ľadovňa f
- Spanish: nevero artificial m, nevera (es) f, pozo de la nieve m, pozo de nieve m, glacería f
- Swedish: iskällare c, ishus n
- Ukrainian: льодо́вня f (lʹodóvnja), льодо́вник m (lʹodóvnyk)
- Volapük: gladöp
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