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House

noun

(pl. houses)

1.

A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families. "She felt she had to get out of the house"

2.

The members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments. Synonyms: business firm, firm.

3.

The members of a religious community living together.

4.

The audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema. "He counted the house"

5.

An official assembly having legislative powers.

6.

Aristocratic family line.

7.

Play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults.

8.

(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided. Synonyms: mansion, planetary house, sign, sign of the zodiac, star sign.

9.

The management of a gambling house or casino.

10.

A social unit living together. Synonyms: family, home, household, menage. "It was a good Christian household" , "I waited until the whole house was asleep" , "The teacher asked how many people made up his home"

11.

A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented. Synonyms: theater, theatre.

12.

A building in which something is sheltered or located.

verb

(past & past part. housed; pres. part. housing)

1.

Contain or cover.

2.

Provide housing for. Synonyms: domiciliate, put up.

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"House" Quotes from Famous Books

... all laugh, but Farnsworth said, reprovingly, "Come away from that, Daisy. We have to enter this house to shelter ourselves, but we needn't ...

— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells

... advice, and hurried on to his house, leaving the rest of the party to stroll slowly along. Adair then narrated the wonderful way in which he and Tom had been preserved. Tom, though a good swimmer, was almost exhausted when Adair made his way up to him and assisted him to reach the ...

— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston

... contemptuous of political and military ambitions. Moreover, the methods of warfare had undergone great improvement; in most branches of the army the trained skill of the professional soldier was really necessary; and it was not possible to leave the olive-yard or the counting-house and become an efficient fighter without more ado. But the expensiveness of the mercenary forces; the violent methods by which they obtained supplies from friends and neutrals, as well as foes, if, as often happened, their pay was in arrear; and the dependence of the city upon the ...

— The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 • Demosthenes

... villages have the institution of the Dhumkuria or Bachelors' dormitory, which Dalton describes as follows: [359] "In all the older Oraon villages when there is any conservation of ancient customs, there is a house called the Dhumkuria in which all the bachelors of the village must sleep under penalty of a fine. The huts of the Oraons have insufficient accommodation for a family, so that separate quarters for the young men are a necessity. The same remark applies to the ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell

... individually, the tighter we hug our own sins and hide their faces, the more clearly we can see the distorted features of our neighbor's weakness. There was more of pity than anger due a person who, ignoring all the beauty in the treasure house before her, chose as a souvenir a warped and very ancient skeleton of a truth and found the same pleasure in dangling it, that a child would in ...

— The House of the Misty Star - A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan • Fannie Caldwell Macaulay

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