Hothouse

Quick meaning: Hothouse is a noun meaning A heated greenhouse.

Meaning

A heated greenhouse.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed.
2. An environment full of conflict or plots.
3. A heated room for drying greenware.
4. (climatology) A hot state in global climate.
5. (transitive) To provide (a child) with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
6. (obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.

Example Sentences

and now she professes a / hot-house, which I think is a very ill house too.

Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides.

she had such an exceptional grasp of maths in her first two years at the school theyʼd been hothousing her to sit her GCSE Maths two years early

A seed had been planted in Gillies's mind—and as he took up his next assignment, it would be nurtured in the brutal hothouse of frontline surgery.

Word Forms

• hothouses
• hot-house
• hothousing
• hothoused

Synonyms for hothouse

Depending on context, synonyms include greenhouse, conservatory.

Antonyms for hothouse

Common opposites include coldhouse, icehouse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conservatory, stovehouse, stove, coolhouse, hotbox, glasshouse.

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