playhouse

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It looked just like a normal kid's playhouse, except that it was the exact dimensions of the average home fridge.

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A venue for performing plays.

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noun

A venue for performing plays.

noun

Alternative form of play house (“child's toy domestic dwelling”). [A dollhouse.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for playhouse.

noun

A venue for performing plays.

noun

Alternative form of play house (“child's toy domestic dwelling”). [A dollhouse.]

Example sentences

It looked just like a normal kid's playhouse, except that it was the exact dimensions of the average home fridge.

Would you build your kids playhouse on your neighbors yard just because he doesn't say no?

I'd like to build my kids a playhouse of some sort, sketching out some designs for that.

Steve had transformed his house in Almaden Valley into a playhouse.

We're a small and passionate group of people based in the old Southwark Playhouse in London, with a growing team here and abroad overseeing our workshop partnerships.

I think it would be fun to build a playhouse out of it.

I just bought 5 acres in South Florida where I plan to have a combo art center/research playhouse with greenhouses and different solar systems.

[X] and whenever a visitor evoked the secret variable of the day, the playhouse gang would crackup laughing and finger pointing.

[1] Hmm, three minutes of discomfort in a dark playhouse doesn't seem quite as bad as drowning or being burned alive.

> Instead, the scientists designed a very small, rather dense, playhouse.

I've always been fascinated with frank lloyd wright and o4 has gotten good enough to not munge the squares around in the coonley playhouse image so that's been a lot of fun to mess with.

It was just turned into an amazing play (technically an opera (rock opera!) since it's just the album being acted out on stage with very few words added) that is being performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego (The home to Tommy, Rent*, Jersey Boys, and many other breakthrough plays).

Quote examples

Hackman befriended Dustin Hoffman at the Pasadena Playhouse and the two were voted “the least likely to succeed”.

The "enclosure" was meant to look like a playhouse; some children were lured into it, but many wandered in on their own.

Proper noun examples

Coming this fall to the Mountain View Community Playhouse, a classic musical updated for today's Valley: My Fair Founder Can master symbolicist Henry Higgins (played by Paul Graham in his first musical-theater role) win a bet by coaching ambitious but crude-speaking Eliza Doolittle to be the toast of Sand Hill Road in three short months?