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glasshouse

UK/ˈɡlɑːshaʊs/US/ˈɡlæshaʊs/

glasshouse noun: a greenhouse, especially one for commercial use.

glasshouse: a greenhouse, especially one for commercial use
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Noun

glasshouse (plural glasshouses)

  1. A greenhouse, especially one for commercial use.
  2. A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
    • The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  3. (UK, slang) A military prison.

glasshouse meaning in Malayalam and Indonesian

glasshouse in Malayalam

greenhouse, hothouse, conservatory
ചില്ലുമന്ദിരം, സ്ഫടികമന്ദിരം, കണ്ണാടി വീട്, ഹരിതഗൃഹം, ചെടികളുടെ സംരക്ഷണകണ്ണാടിക്കൂട്, ചെടികൾ വളർത്തുന്നതിനുള്ള കണ്ണാടിക്കൂട്

glasshouse in Indonesian

building made of glass in which plants are grown
rumah kaca

Synonyms of glasshouse

Forms of glasshouse

pluralglasshouses

Origin of glasshouse

From Middle English glasehows, glashous, glashows; equivalent to glass + house.

Questions about glasshouse

What does glasshouse mean?
Glasshouse means a greenhouse, especially one for commercial use.
What is glasshouse in Malayalam?
Glasshouse in Malayalam is ചില്ലുമന്ദിരം, സ്ഫടികമന്ദിരം, കണ്ണാടി വീട്. See Glasshouse meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is glasshouse?
Glasshouse is a noun.
How do you pronounce glasshouse?
Glasshouse is pronounced /ˈɡlɑːshaʊs/ (UK).
What is the plural of glasshouse?
The plural of glasshouse is glasshouses.

Words near glasshouse in the dictionary

  1. glassfrogs
  2. glassful
  3. glassfuls
  4. glasshole
  5. glassholes
  6. glasshouse
  7. glasshouses
  8. glassichord
  9. glassichords
  10. glassie
  11. glassier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glasshouse (page history and authors); glasshouse (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.

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