Definitions for Hothouse
ˈhɒtˌhaʊs; -ˌhaʊ zɪzhot·house

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. conservatory, hothouse, indoor gardennoun

   a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hothousenoun

   A heated greenhouse.

2. hothousenoun

   An environment in which growth or development is encouraged; a hotbed.

3. hothousenoun

   A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.

4. hothousenoun

   A heated room for drying greenware.

5. hothouseverb

   To provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hothousenoun

   Etymology: hot and house.

   1. A bagnio; a place to sweat and cup in.

   Now she professes a hothouse, which, I think, is a very ill house too. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure.

   2. A brothel.

   Where lately harbour’d many a famous whore,
   A purging bill, now fix’d upon the door,
   Tells you it is a hothouse; so it may,
   And still be a whorehouse: th’ are synonyma. Ben Jonson.

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1. hothouse

   A hothouse is a heated structure, often a glasshouse or greenhouse, used for growing plants that need a lot of heat and humidity, possibly for year-round cultivation or for propagating and nurturing tender plants that cannot withstand colder climates.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hothousenoun

   a house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened

2. Hothousenoun

   a bagnio, or bathing house

3. Hothousenoun

   a brothel; a bagnio

4. Hothousenoun

   a heated room for drying green ware

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hothouse

   Hothouse is a 1962 award-winning fantasy/science fiction novel by British author Brian Aldiss, composed of 5 novelettes that were originally serialized in a magazine. In the US, an abridged version was published as The Long Afternoon of Earth; the full version was not published there until 1976. Five of the stories which make up the novel, which were published separately in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961, were collectively awarded the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction.

Matched Categories

1. • Greenhouse

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hothouse in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hothouse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Hothouse in a Sentence

1. Barack Obama:

   Well, what is true is that the ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base -- helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh and some commentators on Fox News -- I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans from cooperating with me, that hothouse of back-and-forth arguments and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to the country.

2. Michael Way:

   Our hypothesis is that Venus may have had a stable climate for billions of years. It is possible that the near-global resurfacing event is responsible for its transformation from an Earth-like climate to the hellish hothouse we see today.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Hothouse
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hothouse
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Hothouse
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hothouse
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Hothouse
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Hothouse