glasshouse

Questions about glasshouse

What does glasshouse mean?

glasshouse means "a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions".

How many syllables are in glasshouse?

glasshouse has 2 syllables and divides as glas-shouse under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for glasshouse?

Close synonyms include greenhouse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glasshouse a common word?

glasshouse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.