What part of speech is butchery?

Butchery can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does butchery mean?

Definitions

Noun

butchery - the business of a butcher
butchery - the savage and excessive killing of many people
butchery - a building where animals are butchered

Examples of butchery

#   Sentence  
1. noun The bakery is next to the butchery.
2. noun See, now, Polites, one of Priam's sons, / scarce slipt from Pyrrhus' butchery, and lame, / through foes, through darts, along the cloisters runs / and empty courtyards.
Sentence  
noun
The bakery is next to the butchery.
See, now, Polites, one of Priam's sons, / scarce slipt from Pyrrhus' butchery, and lame, / through foes, through darts, along the cloisters runs / and empty courtyards.

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