glasshouse

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡlɑːshaʊs/    美 /ˈɡlæshaʊs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A greenhouse, especially one for commercial use.
  2. A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
    — The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
  3. A military prison. UK,slang

词形变化

glasshouses plural

词汇关系

近义词
greenhouse
相关词
people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

词源

From Middle English glasehows, glashous, glashows; equivalent to glass + house.
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