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- Dictionaryhothouse/ˈhɒthaʊs/
noun
- 1. a heated greenhouse in which plants that need protection from cold weather are grown: "hothouse plants"
verb
- 1. educate or teach (a child) to a high level at an earlier age than is usual: "a school that had a reputation for hothousing its girls"
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Hothouse can mean a heated glass building for plants, a fast-paced environment for learning, or a busy place for an activity. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, and its translations.
Sep 3, 2015 · Learn the meaning of hothouse as a noun and an adjective, with synonyms, examples, and word history. Hothouse can refer to a greenhouse, a hotbed, or a place of rapid growth and development.
A hothouse is a heated building for growing plants or a situation of intense activity or pressure. Learn more about the word forms, synonyms, collocations and usage of hothouse with Collins English Dictionary.
Hothouse is a noun for an artificially heated greenhouse or an adjective for something fragile or artificial. Learn the origin, examples, and related terms of hothouse from Dictionary.com.
A hothouse is a heated greenhouse for plants or an environment that encourages rapid growth or development. Learn more about the origin, usage, and synonyms of this term from various dictionaries and sources.
a place or situation that encourages the rapid development of somebody/something, especially ideas and emotions. In the hothouse atmosphere of college there are plenty of opportunities for falling in love. See hothouse in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: hothouse.
Jun 12, 2024 · Noun. [edit] hothouse (plural hothouses) A heated greenhouse. (figurative) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed. (obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel. A heated room for drying greenware. (climatology) A hot state in global climate. Synonym: greenhouse. Antonym: icehouse.
