art house

noun

: art theater

Examples of art house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

De Boissard was also cautious about the IRIS initiative aimed at art house cinemas. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026

With so many of these films destined to wind up on streaming services rather than art houses, there’s little incentive for directors to whittle down their work to the two-hour mark. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

His name conjures both an ingenious canon within British art house cinema and a trailblazing position within gay activist history. — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026

In the past, Venice has been the launchpad for some of cinema’s defining political works — Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers won the Golden Lion here back in 1966 — and art house cinema has always had a political edge. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for art house

• alehouse
• almshouse
• backhouse
• baghouse
• bakehouse
• bathhouse
• bauhaus
• blockhouse
• boathouse
• brewhouse
• bunkhouse
• clubhouse