abattoir
pronunciation
How to pronounce abattoir in British English:
UK [ˈæbətwɑ:(r)]
How to pronounce abattoir in American English:
US [ˈæbəˌtwɑr]
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- Noun:
- a building where animals are butchered
Word Origin
- abattoir (n.)
- "slaughterhouse for cows," 1820, from French abattre "to beat down" (see abate) + suffix -oir, corresponding to Latin -orium (see -ory).
Example
- 1. Others would be rounded up and sent to an abattoir for either human or pet consumption .
- 2. One day he hopes to also lure the bankers to his farm in yorkshire for farming classes and a visit to the abattoir .
- 3. A former concrete abattoir built in the round by british engineers and finally opened in 1933 , it will over the coming year emerge as a mixed space .
- 4. The municipal council voted in july to go ahead , overcoming a raft of legal objections from the far right , which said the muslim builders got public land ( an old abattoir ) too cheaply .