house
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Is house a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.Hong-Kongcountableuncountable
2. (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.Examples: "Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions."uncountable
3. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).Examples: "To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work."countablehistoricaluncountable
4. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.Examples: "The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate."countableuncountable
5. (figurative) A place of rest or repose.Examples: "Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain."; "Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […]."countablefigurativelyuncountable
6. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.Examples: "Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.Examples: "The car is housed in the garage."; "Houſe your choiceſt Carnations, or rather ſet them under a Pent-houſe againſt a South-wall, ſo as a covering being thrown over them to preſerve them in extremity of weather, they may yet enjoy the freer air at all other times."; "Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair."Synonyms: storetransitive
2. (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.Examples: "Palladius wished him [...] to house all the Helots."Synonyms: accommodate, harbor, harbour, host, put uptransitive
3. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.Examples: "Where Saturn houses."transitive
4. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.Synonyms: enclosetransitive
5. (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.Examples: "The joists were housed into the side walls, rather than being hung from them."transitive
6. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.Examples: "Euen now we hous'd him in the Abbey heere"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (music) House music.Examples: "[…] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers."; "And while hard, minimal techno has become increasingly influenced by house and Oval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school on Strength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno purists Surgeon and Oliver Ho."; "The first genre of American dance music to become popular in the United Kingdom was Chicago house. Although music from Detroit was soon imported as well, it was often treated as subcategory of house, and for many years the most common English term for electronic dance music in general was "house" or "acid house". […] During the formative years of techno and house, the musicians involved interacted in various ways."uncountable
name (English)
1. (politics) A particular chamber of political representationUSabbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisuncountable
2. (politics) A particular chamber of political representationabbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisuncountable
3. (politics) A particular chamber of political representationabbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisuncountable
4. (politics) A particular chamber of political representationcountableuncountable
5. (Oxford University slang, dated) Christ Church, Oxford.countabledateduncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary