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Meaning of glasshouse

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

glasshouse

Pronunciation:/ˈɡlɑːshaʊs//ˈɡlæshaʊs/

noun

Definitions

  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. A military prison.