ワークハウスMeanings1nounworkhouseRefers to a historical institution where poor people were housed and required to work, especially in 19th-century Britain.19世せい紀きのイギリスでは、貧まずしい人ひと々びとはワークハウスで生せい活かつしていた。In 19th-century England, poor people lived in workhouses.