glasshouse

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgreenhouse

   Broaderbuilding

   Narrowerconservatoryorangery

Other forms of glasshouse

plural

glasshouses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

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: glas-shouse. The stress falls on "glas".

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.