noun
Meaning 1
A heated greenhouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: coldhouse
Standard Lemma guide
hothouse
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CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 T HH AW2 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An environment full of conflict or plots.
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noun
Meaning 4
A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 5
A heated room for drying greenware.
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noun
Meaning 6
A hot state in global climate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: climatology, natural-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: greenhouse
Antonyms: icehouse
verb
Meaning 7
To provide (a child) with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 8
a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: conservatory, indoor garden
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: greenhouse, nursery, glasshouse
History
Etymology
From Middle English hothous, equivalent to hot + house.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: парник (parnik) — heated greenhouse
- Bulgarian: оранжерия (oranžerija) — heated greenhouse
- Dutch: verwarmde serre — heated greenhouse
- Finnish: lämmitettävä kasvihuone — heated greenhouse
- German: Treibhaus — heated greenhouse
- German: Gewächshaus — heated greenhouse
- German: Glashaus — heated greenhouse
- German: Tepidarium — heated greenhouse
- German: Warmhaus — heated greenhouse
- Hungarian: melegház — heated greenhouse
- Hungarian: üvegház — heated greenhouse
- Ido: teplico — heated greenhouse
- Japanese: 温室 (onshitsu) — heated greenhouse
- Polish: cieplarnia — heated greenhouse
- Ukrainian: тепли́ця (teplýcja) — heated greenhouse
- Bulgarian: разсадник (razsadnik) — environment that encourages development
- Finnish: hautomo — environment that encourages development
- French: vivier — environment that encourages development
- German: Treibhaus — environment that encourages development
- German: förderliche Umgebung — environment that encourages development
- Hungarian: táptalaj — environment that encourages development
- Bulgarian: сушилня (sušilnja) — heated room for drying greenware
- Finnish: kuivaamo — heated room for drying greenware
- German: Trockenraum — heated room for drying greenware
- Ottoman Turkish: صوبا (soba) — heated room for drying greenware