treehouse

See also: tree house

English

Alternative forms

• tree house
• tree-house

Etymology

From tree +‎ house. First use appears c. 1867. See cite below.

a tree house

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹiːˌhaʊs/

Noun

treehouse (plural treehouses)

1. (chiefly US) A house, or similar structure within a tree, or several trees, built with light materials.
   • 1867, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands, Volume 2, page 177:

     so that I am high and dry, and have all the better view too, quite a grand flight of steps-a broad ladder-up into my house. The Mahaga lads and I call it my tree-house.

2. A tropical residence built in a tree, or on stilts.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:treehouse.

Translations

a house within a tree

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 樹屋／树屋 (shùwū)

• Czech: domeček na stromě m
• Dutch: boomhut (nl) c
• Esperanto: arba domo
• French: maison arboricole f, maison dans les arbres f, cabane dans les arbres f
• German: Baumhaus (de) n
• Greek: δεντρόσπιτο (el) n (dentróspito)
• Hungarian: lombház
• Japanese: ツリーハウス
• Malayalam: ഏറുമാടം (ml) (ēṟumāṭaṁ)
• Polish: domek na drzewie m
• Portuguese: casa da árvore f, casa na árvore f
• Russian: дом на дереве m (dom na dereve)
• Slovak: domček na strome m
• Spanish: casa del árbol f

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