hothouse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A heated greenhouse.
An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed.
An environment full of conflict or plots.
A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.
A heated room for drying greenware.
A hot state in global climate.

verb

To provide (a child) with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.

hothouse hothouses hot-house hothousing hothoused

From Middle English hothous, equivalent to hot + house.

greenhouse

coldhouse icehouse

greenhouse icehouse forcing house

hothouse effect hothouse flower

Bulgarian: разсадник Finnish: hautomo French: vivier German: Treibhaus German: förderliche Umgebung Hungarian: táptalaj

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