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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats