Translation for "köyhäintalo" to english

Köyhäintalo

noun

• almshouse
• poorhouse

Translation examples

almshouse noun

Hotellin ravintola Seegi Maja on restauroitu Pyhän hengen kirkon köyhäintalosta, joka on Pärnun vanhin rakennus.
The hotel restaurant Seegi Maja was reconstructed from the almshouse of the Holy Spirit Church, the oldest building in Pärnu.

Taidehistorioitsija Hendrik Frederik Wijnman osoitti vääräksi myytin, että Ruisdael olisi kuollut köyhänä miehenä oletetusti vanhojen köyhäintalossa Haarlemissa.
The art historian Hendrik Frederik Wijnman disproved the myth that Ruisdael died a poor man, supposedly in the old men's almshouse in Haarlem.

poorhouse noun

1800-luvun lopulla sitä kutsuttiin Fattiggårdsvägeniksi, koska se johti köyhäintalolle.
In the late 1800s it was called Fattiggårdsvägen, referring to the local poorhouse that it led to.

Laajat liiketalouden luokat kirjanpitäjineen, assistentteineen, agentteineen ja kauppamatkustajineen; oikeuslaitos tuomareineen, kirjureineen, haastemiehineen jne; asianajajien armeija henkilökuntineen; sotaväki ja poliisivoimat; kirkot ja luostarit; hyväntekeväisyyslaitokset ja köyhäintalot; vankilat vartijoineen, virkailijoineen ja tuottamattomine asukkeineen;
The large business classes with their clerks, assistants, agents, and commercial travelers; the courts with their judges, record keepers, bailiffs, etc.; the legion of attorneys with their staffs; the militia and police forces; the churches and monasteries; the charity institutions and poorhouses; the prisons with their wardens, officers, keepers, and the non-productive convict population; the army of advertisers and their helpers, whose business it is to persuade you to buy what you don’t want or need, not to speak of the numerous elements that live luxuriously in entire idleness.