Dictionary

play house en · NOUN

Etymology

From play + house.

Meanings

1. A dollhouse.
2. A child's toy domestic dwelling, large enough for the child to enter.
3. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of playhouse (“theater for performing plays”).
   alt of playhouse

Forms

Hypernyms

toy · house

Synonyms

cubby house · toyhouse · doll's house · Wendy house

play house en · PROPN

Etymology

From play + house.

Meanings

1. A stage name for a Paris based DJ and electronic music producer active since 2022.

Forms

play house en · VERB

Etymology

From play + house.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:children's games) 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.
2. To live as if married without actually being legally married, cohabit
   • Playing House Instead / There are times you may find it more appropriate to live with someone rather than rush into marriage. 2009, Fisher Ellie Slott, Mom There's a Man in the Kitchen and He's Wearing Your Robe:
   • 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 1981, Emily Toth, Inside Peyton Place: the life of Grace Metalious, page 209:
   • I really don't like you playing house with the kids around. I don't want the kids to think that it's okay to live together without commitment. 2010, Kim Stafford, Damage, page 122:

Forms

Translations (21)

fi elää avoliitossa (to live unmarried as if being married) · de einen auf Ehe machen (to live unmarried as if being married) · eu afariketan egin (to act out family roles) · fr jouer au papa et à la maman (to act out family roles) · ca jugar a nines (to act out family roles) · pl bawić się w dom (to act out family roles) · pt brincar às casinhas (to act out family roles) · de in wilder Ehe leben (to live unmarried as if being married) · pl bawić się w dom (to live unmarried as if being married) · ca jugar a fer mare i pare (to act out family roles) · fi leikkiä kotia (to act out family roles) · cmn 玩過家家 /玩过家家 (to act out family roles) · es jugar a las casitas (to act out family roles) · de Vater-Mutter-Kind spielen (to act out family roles) · ca tenir capítols de gos i amonestacions de muralla (to live unmarried as if being married) · cmn 玩扮家家酒 (to act out family roles) · ja ままごとをする (to act out family roles) · de wie ein Ehepaar tun (to live unmarried as if being married) · de wie ein Ehepaar zusammenleben (to live unmarried as if being married) · pt brincar de casinha (to act out family roles) · it giocare a fare le faccende domestiche (to act out family roles)