hothouse

noun

ˈhät-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce hothouse (audio)
Definition of hothousenext
1
as in greenhouse
a glass-enclosed building for growing plants grows tomatoes in his hothouse all winter long

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2
as in center
a place or environment that favors the development of something an urban enclave of bohemians that acquired a reputation for being a hothouse of creativity

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Recent Examples of hothouse Some are particularly concerned about California, long a hothouse for extremist groups. — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026 There was also the fact that the women had been in a hothouse of writing, recording, and touring together throughout the turbulence of their early 20s; interpersonal conflicts abounded. — Marissa Lorusso, Pitchfork, 3 May 2026 What unspools is a torrent of misunderstandings, miscommunications, and hothouse conflict. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2026 Since the seventies, the famed Nuyorican Poets Café has blossomed on the Lower East Side as an essential hothouse for arts movements of many stripes, perhaps most crucially as a launching pad for an emergent literati straddling the realms of soul and hip-hop. — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for hothouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hothouse
  1. greenhouse
  2. center
  3. nursery
  4. hotbed
  5. nest
  6. capital
  7. seminary
  8. mecca
Noun
  • English cucumbers are a common variety also known as seedless, greenhouse, or European cucumbers.
    — Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 2 July 2026
  • Scope, history Plans for Midtown Station include almost 2,000 apartments, retail space, a grocery store, town homes, a solar microgrid, a hotel, single family homes, greenhouses and more.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
Definition of greenhouse
Noun
  • Neto bobbled the ball for an error, though, and Contreras crushed Johnson’s next pitch for his 20th homer, a 446-foot shot to left-center that left his bat at 112 mph and gave Boston a 5-3 lead.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • The incident happened less than a week after another child was found dead inside a car at a Plantation early learning center last Monday.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026
Definition of center
Noun
  • Many gardeners buy praying mantis egg cases (oothecae) from garden nurseries, but this practice is discouraged for two reasons.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
  • Find dark skies and point your telescope toward the Milky Way to view the Lagoon Nebula – a star-forming region in the constellation Sagittarius, like a stellar nursery.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
Definition of nursery
Noun
  • India leads the way population-wise, but other South Asian countries, as well as Great Britain and Commonwealth countries like Australia and New Zealand, are also cricket hotbeds.
    — Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 23 June 2026
  • The Abbott show was at Tulsa’s Cain’s Ballroom in June 2025, contributing to a growing buzz around Keyland’s music in the city, especially at the Mercury Lounge, a hotbed of Red Dirt in Tulsa where the band has become a regular.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2026
Definition of hotbed
Noun
  • Luna began the day hopping around, perching on the various trees near the nest.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
  • Like many nations, China is facing a generational challenge in the form of 118 million empty-nest senior citizens who might not mind someone’s company—even if that someone periodically receives over-the-air updates.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Definition of nest
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  • The action required is not cultural goodwill but actual capital, flowing from institutions, from investors, and from women with wealth toward the work of building these tables.
    — Lisa Curtis, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Downtown Sacramento was awash in Dodger blue as thousands of fans poured into the capital city for a three-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the A’s that concludes Wednesday.
    — Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of capital
Noun
  • The suspect, Eli Lavon, 21, was an ultra-Orthodox student at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • The Vatican’s doctrine office went above and beyond the minimum sanctions foreseen by the church’s canon law to respond to the consecrations Wednesday of four new bishops at the society’s Econe, Switzerland, seminary.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of seminary
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  • As one of the darkest spots in the lower 48, Grand Staircase-​Escalante is also a mecca for stargazers, with much of its acreage ranked as Bortle Class 1—​​meaning that on clear nights the Milky Way is bright enough to cast noticeable shadows and even appears to have three dimensions.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 25 June 2026
  • Catawba County, along with other parts of North Carolina, have become a mecca for data center construction as demand for AI tools has increased.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
Definition of mecca

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