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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 fuchsia
  2. tree heath
  3. tree heaths
  4. tree hollow
  5. tree hollows
  6. tree house
  7. tree houses
  8. tree hugger
  9. tree huggers
  10. Tree Island
  11. tree isle

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