glasshouse

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Pronunciation

• (British): IPA: /ˈɡlɑːshaʊs/
• (America): IPA: /ˈɡlæshaʊs/, enPR: glăsʹhous

Noun

glasshouse (plural glasshouses)

1. A building made of glass in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass (chiefly commercial).
2. A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
3. (British military slang)  A military prison.

Synonyms

• greenhouse (chiefly domestic)

Translations

• Russian: тепли́ца

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