house

Meanings

Noun

• A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
• The people who live in a house; a household.
• A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
• The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
• A theatre.
• 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.
• 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.
• One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
• The fourth Lenormand card.
• A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
• The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
• Lotto; bingo.
• A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
• A small stand of trees in a swamp.
• 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.
• House music.

Verb

• To keep within a structure or container.
• To admit to residence; to harbor.
• To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
• To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
• To contain or cover mechanical parts.
• To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
• To drive to a shelter.
• To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
• To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
• To eat.

Related

Similar words

• shop
• store
• accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up
• enclose

Narrower meaning words

• alehouse
• auction house
• backhouse
• basket house
• birdhouse
• boathouse
• boghouse
• bog-house
• chapter house
• coffee house
• common house
• cophouse
• country house
• doghouse
• doll's house
• dosshouse
• doss-house
• dreamhouse
• dream house
• flophouse
• flop-house
• frame house
• full house
• glasshouse
• God's house
• Government House
• Greek house
• greenhouse
• grow house
• guesthouse
• guest-house
• guest house
• halfway house
• haunted house
• 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
• Houses of Parliament
• house of worship
• jakeshouse
• lighthouse
• little house
• longhouse
• long-house
• long house
• lower house
• meetinghouse
• meeting-house
• meeting house
• move house
• outhouse
• playhouse
• play-house
• play house
• poorhouse
• prisonhouse
• privy house
• public house
• publishing house
• pumphouse
• pump house
• royal house
• safehouse
• schoolhouse
• school house
• scouthouse
• shithouse
• shophouse
• siegehouse
• storehouse
• tea house
• tiny house
• town house
• toy house
• tribal house
• upper house
• warehouse
• wartime house
• weather house
• Wendy house
• White House
• whorehouse

Broader meaning words

• building

Origin

• From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs ("dwelling, shelter, house"), from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH-. Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun, borrowed from Old French maison. More at hose.
• The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.)
• From Middle English housen, from Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną, from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen, German Low German husen, German hausen, Norwegian Nynorsk husa, Faroese húsa, Icelandic húsa.
• Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.