play house
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play house
Where it comes from
From play + house.
noun play houses · playhouse
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A dollhouse.
Similar: doll's house
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A child's toy domestic dwelling, large enough for the child to enter.
Similar: cubby house, toyhouse, Wendy house
- Alternative form of playhouse (“theater for performing plays”).
verb plays house · playing house · played house · playhouse
- To pretend to be a family in the household, acting out housekeeping and different family roles. They can keep all their things there and play house in their own way.
- To live as if married without actually being legally married, cohabit Though she flaunted her affair with TJ, Grace never admitted in print that she and George had “played house” before their marriage. Instead, she claimed they were married in 1942
proper noun playhouse
- A stage name for a Paris based DJ and electronic music producer active since 2022.
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verb to act out family roles
| Español | jugar a la casita |
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| 日本語 | ままごとをする mamagoto o suru |
| 中文 | 玩過家家 /玩过家家 wán guòjiājiā, 玩扮家家酒 |
| Português | brincar de casinha, brincar às casinhas |
| Français | jouer au papa et à la maman |
| Deutsch | Vater-Mutter-Kind spielen |
| Italiano | giocare a fare le faccende domestiche |
verb to live unmarried as if being married
| Deutsch | wie ein Ehepaar tun, wie ein Ehepaar zusammenleben, in wilder Ehe leben, einen auf Ehe machen |
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