greenhouse

Other forms of greenhouse

plural

greenhouses·

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 greenhouse

What does greenhouse mean?

greenhouse means "a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in greenhouse?

greenhouse has 2 syllables: green-house. The stress falls on "green". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹinˌhaʊs/.

What is another word for greenhouse?

Close synonyms include glasshouse. 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 greenhouse a common word?

greenhouse is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with greenhouse?

37 words rhyme with greenhouse. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.