Etymology

live house

Today it means: A music venue featuring live music. Full definition →

Japanese ライブハウス
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed fromライブハウス
  2. English todaylive house

Borrowed from Japanese ライブハウス, itself a pseudo-anglicism derived from live + house.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.