- meeting-house (n.)
[meeting-house 词源字典]
- also meetinghouse, 1630s, from meeting (n.) + house (n.).[meeting-house etymology, meeting-house origin, 英语词源]
- Salem
- place mentioned in Gen. xiv:18, from Hebrew Shalem, usually said to be another word for Jerusalem and to mean "peace" (compare Hebrew shalom, Arabic salaam). Common as a Baptist and Methodist meetinghouse name, so much so that by mid-19c. it (along with Bethel and Ebenezer) had come to be used in Britain generically to mean "non-conformist chapel."