Associations to the word «Glasshouse»

Wiktionary

GLASSHOUSE, noun. 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).
GLASSHOUSE, noun. A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
GLASSHOUSE, noun. (British military slang)   A military prison.

Dictionary definition

GLASSHOUSE, noun. A building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley