house
IPA: hˈaʊs
noun
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A theatre.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- Lotto; bingo.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
- (music) House music.
- More generally, a shortened name for any chamber of a legislature that is named "House of...", especially where the other chamber(s) are not so named, or where there is no other chamber (unicameral).
- A placename
- A village in New Mexico.
- An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone residing in a house (as opposed to a hut) or in a religious house.
- (Oxford University slang, dated) Christ Church, Oxford.
- (politics) A particular chamber of political representation [The lower house in the bicameral legislatures of several countries; also some singular legislative bodies in unicameral systems.]
- (US politics, as "the House") Ellipsis of House of Representatives. [The lower house in the bicameral legislatures of several countries; also some singular legislative bodies in unicameral systems.]
- (politics, Westminsterian parliamentary systems) Ellipsis of House of Commons. [(UK politics) The lower house of the British Parliament.]
- (politics) Ellipsis of House of Parliament. [A legislative body in a government with a parliamentary system of government.]
verb
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
- (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
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Examples of "house" in Sentences
- It is housed in a palatial building.
- The house across the road is my home.
- The freshman house is the 400 building.
- The building houses the counseling center.
- Next to the rental house is the Jarvis home.
- It is the ancestral home of the House of Percy.
- The house was a miniature model of the building.
- A carpenter builds houses and other kinds of buildings.
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