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    noun[hous]
    house (noun) · houses (plural noun) · House (noun) · the House (noun) · house music (noun) · house musics (plural noun)
    1. a building for human habitation, especially one that is lived in by a family or small group of people:
      "my wife and I are moving to a new house" · "house prices"
      • the people living in a house; a household:
        "do you want the whole house woken up?"
      • a family or family lineage, especially a noble or royal one; a dynasty:
        "the power and prestige of the House of Stewart"
      • a building in which animals live or in which things are kept:
        "a reptile house"
    2. a building in which people meet for a particular activity:
      "a house of prayer"
      • a business or institution:
        "a publishing house"
      • a restaurant or inn:
        "I ordered a bottle of their house wine"
      • dated
        a brothel.
      • a theater:
        "a hundred musicians performed in front of a full house"
    3. a religious community that occupies a particular building:
      "the Cistercian house at Clairvaux"
      • a residential hall at a school or college:
        "a house of 45 boarders"
      • BRITISH ENGLISH
        formal
        a college of a university.
    4. a legislative or deliberative assembly:
      "the sixty-member National Council, the country's upper house"
      • (the House)
        the House of Representatives or (in the UK or Canada) the House of Commons or Lords:
        "the government commanded an overall majority in the House"
    5. a style of popular dance music typically using synthesized drum and bass lines, sparse repetitive vocals, and a fast beat:
      "DJs specializing in techno, garage, and house"
    6. astrology
      any of the twelve divisions of the celestial sphere, based on the positions of the ascendant and midheaven at a given time and place, and determined by any of a number of methods.
      • a celestial division represented as a sector on an astrological chart, used in allocating elements of character and circumstance to different spheres of human life.
    adjective[hous]
    house (adjective)
    1. (of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.
    2. relating to a business, institution, or society:
      "a house journal"
      • (of a band or group) resident or regularly performing in a club or other venue:
        "the house band"
    verb[houz]
    house (verb) · houses (third person present) · housed (past tense) · housed (past participle) · housing (present participle)
    1. provide (a person or animal) with shelter or living quarters:
      "we make exceptions to these rules if we need to house someone urgently"
    2. provide space for; accommodate:
      "the museum houses a collection of Roman sculpture"
      • insert or fix (something) in a socket or mortise.
    3. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      informal
      eat the whole of (something), typically very quickly:
      "it could be that I just housed a massive burrito, but I don't feel good"
    Origin
    Old English hūs (noun), hūsian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch huis, German Haus (nouns), and Dutch huizen, German hausen (verbs).
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    noun
    1. a building for human habitation, especially one that is lived in by a family or small group of people:
      home
      homestead
      habitation
      residence
      dwelling
      dwelling place
      abode
      domicile
      place of residence
      lodging place
      a roof over one's head
    2. a legislative or deliberative assembly:
      chamber
      council
      parliament
      diet
      congress
      senate
      legislative assembly
      legislative body
      verb
      1. provide (a person or animal) with shelter or living quarters:
        accommodate
        harbor
        lodge
        quarter
        board
        billet
        take in
        shelter
        sleep
        put up
        provide accommodation for
        provide with accommodation
        give accommodation to
        make space for
        make room for
        give someone a roof over their head
        provide a roof over someone's head
        provide with a place to work
        provide shelter for
        give a bed to
        provide with a place to sleep
        Opposite:
        evict
      2. provide space for; accommodate:
        contain
        hold
        store
        cover
        protect
        enclose
        encase
        sheathe
        keep safe
        Opposite:
        expose
         
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        What does house mean in English?
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        What is the difference between house and home?
        These two terms and house have always had reference to the structure to be lived in. home has recently taken on this meaning and become practically equivalent to house, the new meaning tending to crowd out the older connotations of family ties and domestic comfort. See also hotel. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.

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        What is a house called in English?
        , plural hous·es [hou, -ziz]. a building in which people live; residence for human beings. a household. the great houses of France; the House of Hapsburg. a house of worship. a vaudeville house. the audience of a theater or the like. a doghouse. the building in which a legislative or official deliberative body meets. the House of Representatives.

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        How is a house pronounced?
        The form houses is pronounced (haʊzɪz ). A house is a building in which people live, usually the people belonging to one family. She has moved to a smaller house. ...her parents' house in Warwickshire. You can refer to all the people who live together in a house as the house.

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        Is house a verb?
        When house is a verb, meaning to provide a house for, as in “where are you going to house all your guests?” — it’s pronounced with a -z-, rather than an -s-. "House."

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        What is a house in the House of Representatives?
        a building in which people live; residence for human beings. a household. the great houses of France; the House of Hapsburg. a house of worship. a vaudeville house. the audience of a theater or the like. a doghouse. the building in which a legislative or official deliberative body meets. the House of Representatives. a quorum of such a body.

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