house

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Meaning

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.

home

dwelling house

address

business firm

sign of the zodiac

planetary house

give refuge

small house

give shelter to

place to live

place of residence

residential building

residential house

rest-house

empty house

House of Representatives

log house

make at home

place of rest

Sept

set fire to

sod house

tipi

zodiac sign

family line

one’s folks

one’s family

human habitation

supply accommodations

izba

adode

division of the heavens

U.S. House

US House

permanent dwelling

men’s house

ap’t

hemispherical shelter

skin house

women’s house

accommodation unit

assembly hall

boarding-house

college

family house

halting-place

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/haʊs/

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.)