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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A long communal dwelling, especially of certain Native American, Polynesian, and Indonesian peoples.

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  • noun Any of several long communal dwellings for multiple families

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Examples

  • Gist must have explained to him that the longhouse was the social, spiritual, and political center of many Indian communities.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Gist must have explained to him that the longhouse was the social, spiritual, and political center of many Indian communities.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Gist must have explained to him that the longhouse was the social, spiritual, and political center of many Indian communities.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Gist must have explained to him that the longhouse was the social, spiritual, and political center of many Indian communities.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Outside the longhouse is a world apart, the place of nature and disarray.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Reichel-Dolmatoff wrote that the longhouse is a model of the cosmos, with each architectural element charged with symbolic meaning.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Outside the longhouse is a world apart, the place of nature and disarray.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Reichel-Dolmatoff wrote that the longhouse is a model of the cosmos, with each architectural element charged with symbolic meaning.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • They wove in what's called a longhouse, a traditional Montagnard structure.

    News & Record Article Feed 2009

  • The next day, November 26, Washington had his first chance to perform the formal rituals of Indian diplomacy, so he put on his uniform for a council in the longhouse.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

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  • In North America two groups of longhouses emerged. The Native American long house of the tribes usually connected with the Iroquois in the northeast and an unrelated type used by many tribes long the west and northwest Pacific coast of North America.

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    The Oneida Indians who are part of the Iroquois have their Wisconsin reservation near my home and they have a longhouse on display at their museum.

    February 4, 2008