• Hothouse

    Origin

    hot + house

    Full definition of hothouse

    Noun

    hothouse

    (plural hothouses)
    1. A heated greenhouse.
    2. (figurative) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged; a hotbed.
    3. (obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.
      • 1604, William Shakespeare, , II. i. 64:and now she professes a
        hot-house, which I think is a very ill house too.
    4. A heated room for drying greenware.

    Verb

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