Etymograph

English

stadthouse

Stadthouse comes from Dutch stadhuis ‘town hall, city hall’.

  1. Dutchc. 1500–presentstadhuis1‘town hall, city hall’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1751stadthouse1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English stadthouse
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […]: “Mean while, in order to divert his imagination, he…”.

Lineage

  1. Dutchc. 1500–presentstadhuisWiktionary, English stadthouse‘town hall, city hall’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1751stadthouseWiktionary, English stadthouse. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […]: “Mean while, in order to divert his imagination, he…”

Every English word from Dutch stadhuis

Today it means

noun A town hall in a Dutch-speaking country or (former) colony.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “stadthouse”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Dutch stadhuis / stadthouse

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