Thesaurus results for CONSERVATORY

conservatory

noun

kən-ˈsər-və-ˌtȯr-ē

as in greenhouse

a glass-enclosed building for growing plants the college's conservatory is entirely devoted to cultivating and displaying orchids

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Recent Examples of conservatory The backstory This historic, neo-Gothic style building has held many lives, first as the national savings bank and later as a music conservatory. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026 Shea grew up in Los Angeles and trained at the Los Angeles Theatre Academy, a three-year conservatory for acting and directing. —

Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026 BAMtheatre is a year-round, acclaimed, prize-winning youth theater conservatory, with its own building in Westmont, and has almost 3,000 students each year. —

Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026 But the hothouse of the Big Apple jazz scene and the eminent conservatory couldn’t keep her contained. —

Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for conservatory

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greenhouse

Noun

The scent emanated from an installation in a greenhouse in the center of the city, filled with hay and senses-scrambling atmosphere from a fog machine.

— Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2026
In addition, Google searches for ‘backyard greenhouse’ have gone up 200% in the last year.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026