house

Meaning

Noun

1. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
2. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
3. A container; a thing which houses another.
4. Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
5. A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
6. The people who live in a house; a household.
7. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
8. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
9. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
10. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
11. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
12. A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
13. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
14. A place of rest or repose.
15. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
16. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
17. One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
18. The fourth Lenormand card.
19. A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
20. The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
21. Lotto; bingo.
22. A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
23. A small stand of trees in a swamp.
24. A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.

Verb

1. To keep within a structure or container.
2. To admit to residence; to harbor.
3. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
4. To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
5. To contain or cover mechanical parts.
6. To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
7. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
8. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
9. To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
10. (slang) To eat; especially, to scarf down.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/haʊs/

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-?
Proto-Indo-European *-s?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Middle English hous
English house
From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.
The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.)

Sentences

The house was built using concrete .

They say at Patti's house he left two hours ago .