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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

... Deaconess Home, and the branch in New Orleans, there is the Elizabeth Gamble House in Cincinnati, of which Miss Thoburn is superintendent; the Home in New York city, instituted by the Board of the Church Extension and Missionary Society, under the superintendence of Miss Layton; the home in ...

— Deaconesses in Europe - and their Lessons for America • Jane M. Bancroft

... quite as near; and in any case it ought to be respectfully listened to, instead of being, as it is, not merely turned away from, but ignored. On the question of strikes, for instance, it is doubtful if there is so much as one among the leading members of either House who is not firmly convinced that the reason of the matter is unqualifiedly on the side of the masters, and that the men's view of it is simply absurd. Those who have studied the question know well how far this ...

— Considerations on Representative Government • John Stuart Mill

... year equals the aggregate number by which the species to which they respectively belong is, on the average, permanently represented." A remarkable instance of the influence of new circumstances upon birds was observed upon the establishment of a light-house on Cape Cod some years since. The morning after the lamps were lighted for the first time, more than a hundred dead birds of several different species, chiefly water-fowl, were found at the foot of the tower. They had been killed in the course of the night by flying against the thick glass ...

— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

... respect or extent, or as a nominative qualifying the impersonal subject. The former is probably the real construction. Cf. Roby, 1423, and Madvig, 229, b, Obs. 1. — SAMNITIBUS: then in alliance with Pyrrhus. — VIXERAT ... CUM: not to be taken literally of living in the same house; the phrase merely indicates close friendship. In Acad. 2, 115 Cic. writes Diodoto qui mecum vivit tot annos, qui habitat apud me, clearly showing that the phrases vivere cum aliquo and habitare apud aliquem are not equivalent. ...

— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... the grove of trees and opened up the prospect of house and stable and corral with cottonwood and willow-bordered Soogan Creek ...

— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White

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