sporting house vs building

sporting house and building both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sporting house	Yes	No	No	No
building	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, building is a hypernym of sporting house; that is, building is a word with a broader meaning than sporting house:

sporting house: a building where prostitutes are available
building: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

Other hypernyms of sporting house include edifice.

sporting house (noun)	building (noun)
a building where prostitutes are available	the act of constructing something
	the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
	a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
	the occupants of a building