Meanings
plural playhouses
- A venue for performing plays.
Synonyms: theater
- alternativeAlternative form of play house (“child's toy domestic dwelling”).
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA venue for performing plays.
More synonyms by meaning
nounplaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Englishpleġhūs“playhouse, theatre”
- Middle English*pleyhous
- Englishplayhouse
From Middle English *pleyhous, possibly continuing Old English pleġhūs (“playhouse, theatre”). By surface analysis, play + house. Compare Dutch speelhuis, German Spielhaus.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
playhouse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playhouse
“playhouse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playhouse. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “playhouse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playhouse.
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