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tree-house

tree-house is the alternative form of treehouse.

Meaning of treehouse

Noun

treehouse (plural treehouses)

  1. (US) A house, or similar structure within a tree, or several trees, built with light materials.
    • so that I am high and dry, and have all the better view too, quite a grand flight of steps-a broad ladder-up into my house. The Mahaga lads and I call it my tree-house.1867, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands, Volume 2, page 177
    Synonyms:
    treeshed
  2. A tropical residence built in a tree, or on stilts.

Forms of tree-house

pluraltree-houses

Questions about tree-house

What is tree-house the alternative form of?
Tree-house is the alternative form of treehouse.

Words near tree-house in the dictionary

  1. tree-branches
  2. tree-cricket
  3. tree-crickets
  4. tree-dove
  5. tree-doves
  6. tree-house
  7. tree-houses
  8. tree-hugger
  9. tree-huggers
  10. tree-hugging
  11. tree-in-a-hurry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tree-house (page history and authors); treehouse (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.

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