a house where people pay to have sex with prostitutes 妓院 He used to visit a brothel in Paris. 他以前常到巴黎的一家妓院。 She ran a brothel in Soho. 她在索霍区开了一家妓院。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + brothel- go to
- visit
- run
- …
- keeper
- owner
- in a/the brothel
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally brothel-house): from late Middle English brothel ‘worthless man, prostitute’, related to Old English brēothan ‘degenerate, deteriorate’.