Word.ws English Dictionary

art houses

art houses is the plural of art house.

Meaning of art house

Noun

art house (plural art houses)

  1. A cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed.
    • Practically nothing has yet been reported in detail about audiences who attend the art house—a relatively new and growing institution on the American cinematic scene.1953, D. W. Smythe et al., “Portrait of an Art-Theater Audience,”, in The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television, volume 8, number 1, page 28
  2. (dated) A building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale.
    • Hitler had "collected" most of the paintings from a Jewish-owned art house—Goudstikker of Amsterdam.1946 December 16, “Dutch Bouquet”, in Time

Questions about art houses

What is art houses the plural of?
Art houses is the plural of art house.

Words near art houses in the dictionary

  1. art historians
  2. art history
  3. art hoe
  4. art hoes
  5. art house
  6. art houses
  7. art imitates life
  8. art is long, life is short
  9. art journal
  10. art journals
  11. art line

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: art houses (page history and authors); art house (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “art houses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/art_houses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.