hot·house
ˈhät-ˌhau̇s 
1
: a greenhouse maintained at a high temperature especially for the culture of tropical plants
2
3
obsolete
: brothel
1
: grown in a hothouse
2
: suggestive of growth and development in a hothouse
a hothouse existence
also
: suggesting a hothouse
a hothouse atmosphere
Synonyms
Examples of hothouse in a Sentence
Noun
grows tomatoes in his hothouse all winter long
an urban enclave of bohemians that acquired a reputation for being a hothouse of creativity
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Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 10 June 2024
Winehouse is also the opposite of a hothouse flower, standing up to her management company and record execs and TV show hosts like Jonathan Ross and anyone who tries to reduce her to some easily categorizable, disposable commercial flavor of the moment.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
April Long, Town & Country, 13 Sep. 2019
These fragile and artificial economies require hothouse conditions that a weakened OPEC can no longer provide.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
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Noun
And social media amplified that and created this hothouse atmosphere online that has given us all of these different things including crypto and including day trading, but also Donald Trump.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 10 June 2024
Winehouse is also the opposite of a hothouse flower, standing up to her management company and record execs and TV show hosts like Jonathan Ross and anyone who tries to reduce her to some easily categorizable, disposable commercial flavor of the moment.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
Adjective
Fracas, fittingly beloved by personality-plus women such as Madonna, Martha Stewart, and Isabella Blow, dials the heady, hothouse opulence of tuberose up to 11 with the addition of jasmine, tonka bean, and musk.
—April Long, Town & Country, 13 Sep. 2019
These fragile and artificial economies require hothouse conditions that a weakened OPEC can no longer provide.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
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“Hothouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hothouse. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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