powerhouse

English

Etymology

power +‎ house

Pronunciation

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Noun

powerhouse (plural powerhouses)

1. A power station.
   • 1986, Donald R. Froelich, ‎S. K. Wagner, Fourth International Symposium on Hydro Power Fluid Machinery

     The new powerhouse comprised two tube turbines with a total capacity of 4,500 kW under 18.3 feet head.

2. (figurative) Any source of power, energy or strength.

   The company has been a powerhouse in its industry for many years.

   Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

   She's a powerhouse of ideas.

   • 2016 August 25, Fareed Zakaria, “What the Olympics reveal about the world”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     The Soviet Union often led the world in the Olympics during the Cold War, and East Germany was an Olympic powerhouse — though athletes from both are now believed to have been systematically and massively doped..

Translations

source of power

• Czech: zdroj (cs) m, generátor (cs) m, motor (cs) m
• Dutch: krachtbron (nl) m or f
• Finnish: voimanpesä, voimanlähde, valtatekijä
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• Maori: whare huri hiko (of an electric power station)
• Russian: исто́чник акти́вности m (istóčnik aktívnosti), мото́р (ru) m (motór), дви́жущая си́ла (ru) f (dvížuščaja síla)

See also

• workhorse