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house

noun, verb — 36 senses

house

noun

US, UK /ˈhaʊ̯s/ · UK /ˈhaws/

Etymology

From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). More at hose. Eclipsed non-native Middle English mees, meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman mes, mies, meis, maisun (“house”). The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.) Cognates Cognate with Scots hoose, oos (“house”), Yola heouse, houze, howze (“house”), North Frisian hüs (“house”), Saterland Frisian Huus, Húus (“house”), West Frisian hûs (“house”), Alemannic German hous, hus, husch, hüs, hüüsch (“house”), Bavarian, Cimbrian, Mòcheno haus (“house”), Central Franconian Haus, Hous, Huus (“home”), Dutch huis (“house”), Dutch Low Saxon hoes, huus (“house”), German Haus, Hauß (“house”), German Low German Huus (“house”), Limburgish hoes, Huus (“house”), Luxembourgish Haus (“house”), Vilamovian haojs, haus, hoüz (“house”), Yiddish הויז (hoyz, “house”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hus (“house”), Elfdalian aus (“house”), Faroese and Icelandic hús (“house”), Crimean Gothic hus (“house”); also Cornish kudha (“to conceal, hide”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin cutis (“human skin; hide, leather”), Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to cover, hide”), Tocharian A kāc (“hide, skin”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “to cover”).

25 senses
  1. 1A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
  2. 2An apartment building within a public housing estate.
  3. 3A container; a thing which houses another.
  4. 4Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
  5. 5A building intended to contain a single household, as…
  6. 6The people who live in a house; a household.
  7. 7A building used for something other than a residence…
  8. 8A place of business; a company or organisation…
  9. 9A place of public accommodation or entertainment…
  10. 10A workhouse.
  11. 11The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
  12. 12A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence…
  13. 13A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants…
  14. 14A place of rest or repose.
  15. 15A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of…
  16. 16An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal…
  17. 17One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
  18. 18The fourth Lenormand card.
  19. 19A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place…
  20. 20The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
  21. 21Lotto; bingo.
  22. 22A children's game in which the players pretend to be…
  23. 23A small stand of trees in a swamp.
  24. 24A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain…
  25. 25The end zone.
1

A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

  • This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
  • The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,[…].1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
1 more example
  • Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
2

Hong Kong, Used in names An apartment building within a public housing estate.

3

A container; a thing which houses another.

  • The purposes of food are to promote growth, to supply force and heat, and to furnish material to repair the waste which is constantly taking place in the body. Every breath, every thought, every motion, wears out some portion of the delicate and wonderful house in which we live.1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 25:
4

Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.

  • Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.2007 November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, in Newsweek:
5

A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.

6

The people who live in a house; a household.

  • one that feared God with all his house1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:2:
7

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.
  • On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.
8

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.
  • I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
9

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 house always wins.
2 more examples
  • The farce comedy which followed, When We're Married by Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation. The production filled the house.1964, “Northwest Ohio Quarterly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 36, page 185:
  • Frazier and Gary worked for me for free — for six months — they didn't take any money from the house. They worked for tips.1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 9:
10

Historical A workhouse.

  • To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work.1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners, volume 29, page 169:
11

The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

  • After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
  • Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 2, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
12

Government, 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.
13

A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.

  • A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
14

Figuratively A place of rest or repose.

  • Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  • Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […].1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:
15

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.
16

An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.

17

Astrology, Human sciences, Mysticism, Philosophy, Sciences One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

  • Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.1971, Sir Keith Vivian Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, The Folio Society, published 2012, →ISBN, page 313:
18

Cartomancy, Human sciences, Mysticism, Philosophy, Sciences The fourth Lenormand card.

19

Board games, Chess, Games Archaic A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

20

Ball games, Curling, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

21

Lotto; bingo.

22

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.
23

US, Dialectal A small stand of trees in a swamp.

24

A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.

25

American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Slang, With “the” The end zone.

Synonyms
shop
Derived terms
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Hypernyms
building, dwelling, residence
Hyponyms
95 termsalehouse, auction house, backhouse, basket house, birdhouse, boathouse, bog-house, boghouse, bottle house, chapter house, coffee house, common house, Commons House, cophouse, country house, doghouse, doll's house, doss-house, dosshouse, dream house, dreamhouse, flophouse, flop-house, frame house, full house, glasshouse, God's house, Government House, Greek house, greenhouse, grow house, guest house, guest-house, guesthouse, halfway house, haunted house, house museum, house of assembly, House of Commons, house of correction, house of detention, house of God, house of ill fame, house of ill repute, House of Lords, house of office, house of worship, Houses of Parliament, icehouse, jakeshouse, lighthouse, little house, longhouse, long-house, long house, lower house, meetinghouse, meeting-house, meeting house, morthouse, move house, outhouse, playhouse, play-house, play house, poorhouse, prisonhouse, privy house, public house, publishing house, pump house, pumphouse, royal house, safehouse, school house, schoolhouse, scouthouse, shithouse, shophouse, siegehouse, skookum house, springhouse, storehouse, tea house, tiny house, town house, toy house, tribal house, upper house, warehouse, wartime house, weather house, Wendy house, White House, whorehouse

house

verb

/haʊz/

Etymology From Middle English housen, from Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).

10 senses
  1. 1To keep within a structure or container.
  2. 2To admit to residence; to harbor.
  3. 3To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
  4. 4To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
  5. 5To contain or cover mechanical parts.
  6. 6To contain one part of an object for the purpose of…
  7. 7To drive to a shelter.
  8. 8To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
  9. 9To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
  10. 10To eat; especially, to scarf down.
1

To keep within a structure or container.

  • The car is housed in the garage.
  • Houſe your choiceſt Carnations, or rather ſet them under a Pent-houſe againſt a South-wall, ſo as a covering being thrown over them to preſerve them in extremity of weather, they may yet enjoy the freer air at all other times.1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: OrThe Gard’ners Almanac; […] [November.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 29:
1 more example
  • Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646:
2

To admit to residence; to harbor.

  • Palladius wished him [...] to house all the Helots.c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The First Booke] Chapter 1”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 41, recto:
3

To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.

  • You shall not house with me.c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
  • The federation yesterday vowed to occupy Uotsuri, one of the islands, and build a permanent structure to house six members.1996 October 5, Robert Whymant, “Tokyo tries to calm islands row”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, column 2:
4

Astrology, Human sciences, Mysticism, Philosophy, Sciences To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

  • Where Saturn houses.1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
5

To contain or cover mechanical parts.

6

To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.

  • The joists were housed into the side walls, rather than being hung from them.
7

Obsolete To drive to a shelter.

  • Euen now we hous'd him in the Abbey heerec. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
8

Obsolete To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

  • Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
9

Nautical, Transport To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

  • to house the upper spars
10

Canada, US, Slang To eat; especially, to scarf down.

  • All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
Synonyms
store, accommodate, harbor, harbour, host, put up, enclose
Derived terms
housable, unhousable

house

noun

/haʊs/

Etymology Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.

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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music House music.

  • […] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 73:
  • And while hard, minimal techno has become increasingly influenced by house and Oval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school on Strength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno purists Surgeon and Oliver Ho.2001 March, Philip Sherburne, “Exos, Strength [album review]”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 91, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, →ISSN, page 66:
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  • The first genre of American dance music to become popular in the United Kingdom was Chicago house. Although music from Detroit was soon imported as well, it was often treated as subcategory of house, and for many years the most common English term for electronic dance music in general was "house" or "acid house". […] During the formative years of techno and house, the musicians involved interacted in various ways.2006, Mark Jonathan Butler, Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

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