Definitions for playhouse

playhouse play·house

Spelling: [pley-hous]
IPA: /ˈpleɪˌhaʊs/

Playhouse is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 504 anagrams from letters in playhouse (aehlopsuy).

Definitions for playhouse

noun

  1. a theater.
  2. a small house for children to play in.
  3. a toy house.

Origin of playhouse

1590-1600; play + house; compare Old English pleghūs, as gloss of Latin theātrum theater

Examples for playhouse

It left court-watchers wondering if the child's body might have first been stored inside the playhouse.

She calls it her playhouse and you'd think 'twas Heaven the way she loves to stay there.

Colds caught at this season are The Companion to the playhouse.

In the autumn of 1580 he saw an opportunity to break the lease and close the playhouse.

There was a balcony from which you could look down on the dancers as from the gallery of a playhouse.

I was in the playhouse one night when Cà Ira was called for.

After this there is no evidence to connect the playhouse with dramatic performances.

For a time, no doubt, affairs at the playhouse were at a standstill.

The first passage cited may refer to the playhouse at Newington Butts.

This is the last that we hear of the playhouse, that was "in times past as famous as any of the other."

Word Value for playhouse
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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