Meanings
plural bordellos · plural bordelloes
- A brothel.
“You know, this house does have a belfry filled with local bats. Maybe Laszlo went up there.” “Oh, so like my darling perverted husband, to sniff out the local bordello immediately upon arrival. [chuckles] Could you take me to the belfry?”
2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (9:33 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou)
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna building where prostitutes are available
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-“to carve, cut, split, rub”
- Italianbordello
- Englishbordello
From Italian bordello. Distantly related to brothel, through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”). Doublet of bordel. By surface analysis, Latin borda + Italian -ello (“diminutive”).
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bordello. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bordello
“bordello.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bordello. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bordello,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bordello.
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