hotbed

Noun

Meaning

A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

conservatory glasshouse center seminary centrum hothouse cynosure place capital hive eyrie heat focus core heart
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Antonyms

common run barren desert bleak wasteland desolate wasteland barren wasteland arid wasteland
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Hypernyms

situation bed state of affairs

Examples

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships. Jean O'Leary

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. Henry Rollins

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. Tom Ford

Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time. Masaaki Imai

Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage? Annie Jacobsen

I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers. Linus Torvalds

Close letter words and terms

Hotaru HOTAS hotbar hotblooded hotbloodedness hotbox