PLAYHOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does playhouse mean? 

• PLAYHOUSE (noun)
  The noun PLAYHOUSE has 1 sense:

1. plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of

  Familiarity information: PLAYHOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAYHOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

playhouse; wendy house

Hypernyms ("playhouse" is a kind of...):

plaything; toy (an artifact designed to be played with)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "playhouse"):

tree house (a playhouse built in the branches of a tree)

 Context examples 

I have it all laid out in my mind, and I can see where the playhouses are, and how the river runs, and where the King’s house is, and the Prince’s, and the place where the fighting-men live.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)