Noun

• S: (n) abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse (a building where animals are butchered)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) building, edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place) "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) butchery, butchering (the business of a butcher)
• S: (n) slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery (the savage and excessive killing of many people)