treehouseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• tree house
• tree-house

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɹiːˌhaʊs/

名詞

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.

引用

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

アナグラム

• ethereous