house meaning
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WHouse
- A house is a building that functions as a home for humans or other creatures like dogs , ranging from simple dwellings such as rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to complex structures composed of many systems.
- The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, although households may also be other social groups or individuals.
FR house
- NounPLhousesPLhousen
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
- (figuratively) a place of rest or repose.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.
- 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.
- (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.
- As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.
- House music.
- [ …] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- VerbSGhousesPRhousingPT, PPhoused
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- The car is housed in the garage.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
- 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.
- (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.
- to house the upper spars
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- I needed a waiver from the zoning board for the house because the lot was so small, but they let me build because it was next to the park.
- Sunday houses were often made of limestone rock coated with whitewash inside and out.
- ... explicitly clear, in the way that 10 Downing Street has made it clear in the case of city academies, that it is perfectly legitimate to put people in the House of Lords ...
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- A network of children distributes flyers to every house.
- John's in the studio working on the plans for the new house.
- I'll need to block off a couple of weeks to refurnish my house.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of house in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
- fr house
- en houses
- en household
- en housekeeper
- en housewife
Source: Wiktionary