English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

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 army slang) A military prison.

Synonyms

• greenhouse (chiefly domestic)

• Glasshouse (novel), a 2006 novel by Charles Stross
• Glasshouse (band), an Australian alternative rock band
• Glasshouse (British Army), term for a military prison in the British Army
• Glass Houses, a 1980 album by Billy Joel

• Greenhouse, a building where plants are cultivated
• Glass House, a health care facility in Sri Lanka owned by businessman U.N.Gunasekera

• The Glass House