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House
haʊs
- a building for human habitation, especially one that consists of a ground floor and one or more upper storeys
"my wife and I are moving to a new house"
- the people living in a house; a household
"make yourself scarce before you wake the whole house"
- a noble, royal, or wealthy family or lineage; a dynasty
"the power and prestige of the House of Stewart"
- a dwelling that is one of several in a building
- a building in which animals live or in which things are kept
"a hen house"
- a building in which people meet for a particular activity
"a house of prayer"
- a firm or institution
"a publishing house"
- the Stock Exchange
- a restaurant or inn
"help yourself to a drink, compliments of the house!"
- a brothel
- a theatre
"a hundred musicians performed in front of a full house"
- a performance in a theatre or cinema
"tickets for the first house"
- a religious community that occupies a particular building
"the Cistercian house at Clairvaux"
- a residential building for pupils at a boarding school
"a house of 45 boarders"
- each of a number of groups into which pupils at a day school are divided for games or competition
- a college of a university
- a legislative or deliberative assembly
"the sixty-member National Council, the country's upper 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"
- used in formal debates that mimic the procedures of a legislative assembly
"a debate on the motion ‘This house would legalize cannabis’"
- a style of electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals and a fast beat
"DJs specializing in techno, garage, and house"
- 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
- a 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
- (of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings
- relating to a firm, institution, or society
"a house journal"
- (of a band or group) resident or regularly performing in a club or other venue
"the house band"
- provide with shelter or accommodation
"they converted a disused cinema to house twelve employees"
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 - provide space for; contain or accommodate
"the museum houses a collection of Roman sculpture"
- fix (something) in a socket or mortise
- eat the whole of (something), typically very quickly
"it could be that I just housed a massive burrito, but I don't feel good"