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glasshouses

glasshouses is the plural of glasshouse.

Meaning of glasshouse

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.

Questions about glasshouses

What is glasshouses the plural of?
Glasshouses is the plural of glasshouse.

Words near glasshouses in the dictionary

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

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