Sekirov Dictionary

house

/haʊ̯s/

noun26

  1. a building made or used as a home for people
  2. (Hong-Kong) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
  3. Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
  4. A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
  5. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
  6. (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
  7. A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
  8. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
  9. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
  10. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
  11. (historical) A workhouse.
  12. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
  13. The people who live in a house; a household.
  14. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
  15. House music.
  16. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
  17. A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
  18. A container; a thing which houses another.
  19. One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
  20. Lotto; bingo.
  21. (slang) The end zone.
  22. The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
  23. A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
  24. The fourth Lenormand card.
  25. (dialect, US) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
  26. (no longer used) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
house
/haʊz/

verb10

  1. To admit to residence; to harbor.
  2. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
  3. To keep within a structure or container.
  4. To contain or cover mechanical parts.
  5. To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
  6. To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
  7. (US, slang) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
  8. To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
  9. (no longer used) To drive to a shelter.
  10. (no longer used) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
forms

housed · housing · houses · houseth · hice · housen

Phrases with house

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