: a family including ancestors, descendants, and kindred
the house of Tudor
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a
: a residence for a religious community or for students
a fraternity house
b
: the community or students living in such a residence
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a
government: a legislative, deliberative, or consultative assembly
especially: one constituting a division of a bicameral body
a bill approved by both houses of Congress
—often used in capitalized form as the shortened name of a specific house
The bill passed in both the House and the Senate. MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Government's Brexit Bill in the House of Commons. … The House voted in favour of the bill by 498 to 114 … Chloe Chaplain
b
: the building or chamber where such an assembly meets
Save room for a soufflé, the century-long house specialty … Thomas P. Farley
a house cocktail [=a cocktail whose recipe was created by the bar, restaurant, etc. at which it is served]
b(1)
: a business organization
a publishing house
(2)
: a gambling establishment
c
: the audience in a theater or concert hall
a full house on opening night
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curling: the circular area 12 feet in diameter surrounding the tee and within which a curling stone must rest in order to count
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[from The Warehouse, Chicago dance club that pioneered the style]: a type of dance music mixed by a disc jockey that features overdubbing with a heavy repetitive drumbeat and repeated electronic melody lines
Noun Would you like to come to my house for dinner? I spent the weekend just puttering around the house. He made enough noise to wake the whole house. Verb More prisons are needed to house the growing number of inmates. The museum houses an impressive collection of jewels. The carpenter built casing to house the hot water pipes. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Chantel returns from vacation and has Winter and Karen move into the house. Rodney Ho, ajc, 5 Sep. 2022 While working to find the source, officers approached a house on Longview Avenue and went around back. Jane Morice | Jmorice@cleveland.com, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2022 The craft of building a log house in the U.S. followed the first Swedish settlers in 1638 to colonies in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2022 Larkmead is a Cabernet house, but the changing climate could mean faster ripening fruit and different tasting wines. Hollie Stephens, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2022 But in truth Eritrea is a human-rights house of horrors. Steve Walker, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2022 In Lincoln Heights, Black workers and their families developed their own institutions, including two churches, a cemetery, a hotel, apartment house and club, according to a National Park Service history. Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2022 Smietana emphasizes the sense of community that a house of worship can provide. Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2022 Kim Clark, 69, rents a room in a house in El Cajon that does have air conditioning. Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
Verb
The students helped raise money to build a barn to house the cattle on campus five years ago. Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2022 Bytedance has promised to house American data on servers in the United States to quell concerns. Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 3 July 2022 So instead, New York has been paying to house 15,000 high-cost Medicaid recipients on its own.New York Times, 14 June 2022 Huge temporary facilities were set up in exhibition centers and other venues to house thousands of people who had tested positive. Emily Wang Fujiyama And Ken Moritsugu, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022 The firm is likely interested in the space for its Amazon Web Services division and could house around 800 workers at the new facility, Ohl said. Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022 Military bases, part of an emergency solution, were never intended to house tens of thousands of new arrivals for lengthy periods; at other bases, Afghans slept in tents in freezing temperatures. Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2022 The University of Maryland is working with an international aid group to temporarily house 25 Afghan refugees on its College Park campus, officials said Tuesday.Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022 And then there is the matter of the money — more than $1 billion of which was temporarily transferred out of NIH to help pay for the health department’s efforts to house unaccompanied children at the U.S. border with Mexico. Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 30 Mar. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun and Verb
Middle English hous, from Old English hūs; akin to Old High German hūs house
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1