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housenoun /haʊs /1A building for human habitation, especially one that consists of a ground floor and one or more upper storeys: a house of Cotswold stone [as modifier]: house prices...- Real foxes do, indeed, sometimes make their homes under human houses and, increasingly in this country at any rate, under city homes.
- The plaintiffs were required to carry out certain repairs by the local council in order to render houses fit for human habitation.
- Then here were a great many houses; human habitations, full of the mysteries of life at every stage of it.
Synonyms home, place of residence, homestead, lodging place, a roof over one's head formal habitation, residence, dwelling, dwelling place, abode, domicile 1.1The people living in a house; a household: make yourself scarce before you wake the whole house...- Every creak of a floor board or an opening door seems loud enough to wake up the whole house.
- He picked up his cell phone to call her but thought that he would be waking up the whole house.
- I would have called you, but I didn't want to wake your entire house at seven on a weekend.
Synonyms household, family, family circle, ménage, clan, tribe informal brood 1.2A noble, royal, or wealthy family or lineage; a dynasty: the power and prestige of the House of Stewart...- Mountbatten was born to a family closely related to the house of Windsor.
- Mar decided to retaliate by raising the standard for the house of Stuart.
- The Picts also practiced matrilineal descent - thus their royal houses all descended through the female line.
Synonyms clan, kindred, family, tribe, race, strain; dynasty, line, lineage, ancestry, ancestors, bloodline, descent, family tree 1.3chiefly Scottish A dwelling that is one of several in a building. 1.4 [with modifier] A building in which animals live or in which things are kept: a hen house...- The Reptile House gives visitors an insight into the reptile and amphibian world in its many shapes and sizes.
- The majority of the Zoo's birds live in the beautiful, sanctuary-like Bird House but birds are also scattered throughout other exhibits.
2A building in which people meet for a particular activity: a house of prayer...- Jesus, berating the money-changers in the Temple, called the building a house of prayer.
- He also noted that it did not take into account the mosques and Muslim houses of prayer destroyed since 1948.
- It is not right to make a fortress of Christ's church, which is a house of prayer.
2.1A firm or institution: a publishing house...- The central government plans to privatise publishing houses in a bid to open the sector and lure investment.
- There seemed to be only a half dozen corporate publishing houses left.
- He also appealed to business houses to help the institution with the sinking of a borehole since the school has no water supply.
Synonyms firm, business, company, corporation, enterprise, establishment, institution, concern, organization, operation informal outfit, set-up 2.2 (the House) British informal The Stock Exchange.'From the Alley to the House is like a path of ants', said Walpole. 2.3A restaurant or inn: help yourself to a drink, compliments of the house! [as modifier]: a carafe of house wine...- We'll dine at the fanciest and snootiest drive-thru restaurants and waffle houses.
- There are a few trusty pizza houses and French restaurants for those who can't face cooking after a day of strenuous exercise.
- You can sip a cup of tea at the tea house and restaurant inside the garden.
Synonyms inn, bar, tavern, hostelry, taproom; restaurant, hotel, eating house; British pub, public house informal eatery, boozer historical alehouse, taphouse, beerhouse North American historical saloon 2.4 dated A brothel.In an attempt to create Canadas first cooperative bawdy house, a sex-work organization will submit a request to Parliament for amnesty from an anti-brothel provision within the next six months. 2.5A theatre: a hundred musicians performed in front of a full house...- Most of the picture houses and theatres carried a lot of publicity from their managers' point of view.
- That attendance at theatre houses has dropped can only point to the fact that the quality of productions has not been impressive as has been the investment.
- The community responds and you screen in 800 seat theatres to packed houses.
Synonyms audience, crowd, those present, listeners, spectators, viewers, gathering, assembly, assemblage, congregation; gallery, stalls informal punters 2.6British A performance in a theatre or cinema: tickets for the first house...- Since Gyan's return to the North Coast she has been performing to sellout houses.
- It played six performances to packed houses at Sydney's Conservatorium, and attracted gratifying media attention.
- Later it performed to packed houses at Andrew's Lane Theatre in Dublin
3A religious community that occupies a particular building: the Cistercian house at Clairvaux...- Giberti, like Sadoleto, chose to reside in his see, where he disciplined his clergy, reformed religious houses, and took the cure of souls seriously.
- Joseph II reduced the number of religious houses belonging to the contemplative orders.
- In England, for example, there were some fifty religious houses in 1066 and perhaps 1,000 monks and nuns.
3.1A residential building for pupils at a boarding school: a house of 45 boarders [as modifier]: a house prefect...- No parts of the university were closed to the public (of course, the residential fraternity houses were another matter).
- In the final chapter, Kiely tells us about his adventures as a master of one of Harvard's residential houses.
- The boarding houses are Grange Court, Sandon Lodge, and Hainault House.
3.2British Each of a number of groups into which pupils at a day school are divided for games or competition.There were eight houses or forms that divided up the pupils at Bishop Luffa and Sherbourne had now become the odd one out, the unlucky one....- Students are divided into houses based on their special needs or interests.
- From the very start, competition between the houses is encouraged.
3.3British formal A college of a university.He studied at the Castle, one of four teaching houses of the university which offered two year Arts degrees based almost entirely on the teachings of Aristotle....- College House is New Zealands oldest and most traditional University College, and is home to 152 students at the University of Canterbury.
4A legislative or deliberative assembly: the sixty-member National Council, the country’s upper house...- At the state level, some of the legislatures are bicameral, patterned after the two houses of the national parliament.
- The referendum has been widely adopted to protect key aspects of state constitutions, such as the governor and the two houses of parliament.
- This introduced a national parliament with two houses for India.
Synonyms legislative assembly, legislative body, chamber, council, parliament, diet, congress, senate 4.1 (the House) (In the UK) the House of Commons or Lords; (in the US) the House of Representatives: the government commanded an overall majority in the House...- The oldest member of parliament, he served as speaker of the house when it first met.
- Ideally, the president of the GMC would present the annual report in public, before a committee of both houses of parliament.
- We accept that a time will come when the houses of parliament and the government will have to agree a final form of the bill that is less than ideal.
4.2Used in formal debates that mimic the procedures of a legislative assembly: a debate on the motion ‘This house would legalize cannabis’...- This House Would Under No Circumstances Fight For Queen And Country.
- This house would privatise Britain's universities.
5 (also house music) [mass noun] A style of electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals and a fast beat: DJs specializing in techno, garage, and house...- We were influenced by electro, hip-hop, house music, jazz-funk, reggae, everything really.
- I mainly listen to minimal techno house, mostly because that's what I play out.
- Next door, was a cafe run by a former ska musician with a love for house and techno.
6 Astrology A twelfth division 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.It is also good to have the ruler of the Ascendant and the 2nd house in mutual reception....- A horoscope needs to be drawn and studied and the meaning of aspects as well as the positioning of houses and planets have to be understood.
- His seventh house contains Mars while Libra is at the Ascendant containing Uranus.
6.1A twelfth division of the celestial sphere represented as a sector on an astrological chart, used in allocating elements of character and circumstance to different spheres of human life.I look further along and I see the Moon is at the top of the chart in the ninth house at 14 degrees of Virgo....- The angular houses represent our own ‘seats of power’, places of familiarity and control.
- Every astrology chart is divided into houses, starting with the Ascendant line and working anti-clockwise around the rest of the chart.
7 [mass noun] British old-fashioned term for bingo. 7.1 [as exclamation] Used by a bingo player to announce that they have won.I made the cardinal bingo greenhorn's mistake of calling house when I hadn't filled my card....- In every game of bingo the tickets will be only 5p or 10p so you could be shouting house for just 5p.
adjective [attributive]1(Of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.The study also showed that rather than living in hutches, four out of 10 pet rabbits were house rabbits....- The cougar reportedly snatched a house cat and ran off into the bush with it.
- It was a paddock for the grazing of house cows and the Governor's horses.
2Relating to a firm, institution, or society: a house journal...- Business Week, which wants to be the house journal for Web 2.0 badgers, has no doubts.
- This section looks firstly at factors concerned with the fund manager's organisational structure and secondly at matters relating to the implementation of the house policy.
- The main purpose of an external house journal is to promote the organization, its products, and its services.
2.1(Of a band or group) resident or regularly performing in a club or other venue: the house band...- As always, the house band will be in residence with all the usual suspects!
- Jim Bridges and Cory Papirny are the house band rhythm section this time around.
- He takes his place near the back of the house band, playing the spoons in perfect tempo.
verb /haʊz / [with object]1Provide with shelter or accommodation: they converted a disused cinema to house twelve employees...- The women and children cited by Coleman in the column appear to be housed in shelters.
- If an asylum-seeker turned up with his family I am sure they would be housed in far better accommodation than these poor people have to live in.
- It enables vulnerable people to be housed in suitable accommodation so that they can try and turn their lives around.
Synonyms accommodate, 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, harbour; lodge, quarter, board, billet, take in, provide shelter for, shelter; sleep, put up, give a bed to, provide with a place to sleep 2Provide space for; contain or accommodate: the museum houses a collection of Roman sculpture...- The Van Gogh museum houses the largest collection of this troubled man's masterpieces, and is definitely worth a look.
- The experience of being inside the David and Peggy Rockefeller Building, which houses the museum's new galleries, is uplifting.
- The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is housed in one such building, at 97 Orchard Street.
Synonyms contain, hold, store, cover; protect, enclose, encase, sheathe, keep safe 2.1Fix (something) in a socket or mortise.The joinery not only meets the requirements of modern engineering, it is the classic housed mortise and tenon joinery that has withstood the test of time....- A socket for receiving the wedge base electric lamp houses socket terminals serving to retain the electric lamp and to provide contact with lead wires of the electric lamp.
Phrasesas safe as houses get on (or along) like a house on fire go (all) round the houses house and home a house divided cannot stand house of cards keep (or make) a House keep house on the house play house put (or set) one's house in order set up house Derivativeshouseful /ˈhaʊsfʊl / noun (plural housefuls) ...- In the pictures from the burial, his wife Marie looked as distressed and tearful as any woman, left alone to bring up a houseful of children without much material support, might be expected to look.
- And I hope we have a houseful of people.
- And in a houseful of a lot of kids, and there were a lot of grand kids around, he would get on top of a chair to get attention if necessary.
houseless /ˈhaʊsləs / adjective ...- In the guise of providing shelter to siteless or houseless persons, the owners of immovable properties are made landless and also jobless.
- When they first glimpsed Carmel, it reminded them of the Cornish coast (back then the area was treeless, still largely houseless, and windswept).
- I get on a train, and am disgorged on a dark, houseless Merrylee Road.
OriginOld English hūs (noun), hūsian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch huis, German Haus (nouns), and Dutch huizen, German hausen (verbs). The word house is related to Dutch huis and German Haus, and their ancient ancestor may have been a root meaning ‘to hide’ found also in huddle (late 16th century). The House of Commons was first called by that name in the early 17th century, quickly followed by the Houses of Parliament, and the House of Lords. The house music heard in clubs from 1986 onwards was probably named after the Warehouse, a club in Chicago where the music was first popular. See also hussy
Rhymesdouse, dowse, Gauss, grouse, Klaus, louse, Manaus, mouse, nous, Rouse, souse, spouse, Strauss arouse, blouse, browse, carouse, Cowes, dowse, drowse, espouse, Howes, rouse |