playhouse
playhouse Lexical Profile
playhouse Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A small structure, often resembling a miniature house, built in a yard or playroom for children to play in.
"The children spent the entire afternoon pretending to run a bakery inside their wooden backyard playhouse."
A theater or auditorium where dramatic stage plays and theatrical productions are performed.
"The historic downtown playhouse was restored to its original nineteenth-century grandeur before the new repertory season opened."
A miniature toy house designed for dolls and figurines.
"She carefully arranged the tiny wooden furniture inside the plastic playhouse on her bedroom floor."
• Rhymes for playhouse
Word Origin & Etymology
First recorded in Old English as pleghus (meaning a theater or place for sports), this compound combines the roots of 'play' and 'house'. It was revived in the late 16th century during the Elizabethan era to refer specifically to public theaters in London.