playhouse
Americannoun
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playhouses
plural
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a theater.
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a small house for children to play in.
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a toy house.
noun
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a theatre where live dramatic performances are given
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a toy house, small room, etc, for children to play in
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of playhouse
1590–1600; play + house; compare Old English pleghūs, as gloss of Latin theātrum theater
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Like the majority of theatres in Germany, Widmaier's playhouse is heavily reliant on state funding.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Next door, an empty lot marks where a beloved playhouse stood before flames destroyed it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
“An Awfully Big Adventure” follows 16-year-old Stella Bradshaw into the dim hallways and bustling dressing rooms of a popular playhouse in 1950s Liverpool, England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
He said his aunt Rene "fondly" remembered meeting the royal family and recalled playing in a large playhouse in the Royal Lodge's garden.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
I had a basin where I would scrub my dolls’ clothes and hang them with tiny clothespins on the wash line Adele strung at my height next to the playhouse.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Both writers entered a theatrical scene still in flux, working for London’s relatively new purpose-built playhouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
After Nora’s exit, anything was possible on the stages of respectable European playhouses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
From bouncers to high chairs, toys to swing sets and playhouses, my kids have enjoyed so many wonderful gifts.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
As part of a foray into theater, she is currently a guest director at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, one of the most important playhouses in the German-speaking world.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
That noise wouldn’t do, so they kept moving through other yards, around playhouses, and past trampolines until they were back to a road far away from Flux.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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