House

House, Edward Mandell Known as "Colonel House." 1858-1938.

American diplomat and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. He organized U.S. preparations for the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

house (hous)

n. pl. hous·es (hou

z, -s

a. A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.

b. A household or family.

2. Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.

3. A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit: a sorority house.

4. A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something: a carriage house; the lion house at the zoo.

a. A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public: a movie house; the specialty of the house.

b. The audience or patrons of such an establishment: a full house.

a. A commercial firm: a brokerage house.

b. A publishing company: a house that specializes in cookbooks.

c. A gambling casino.

d. Slang A house of prostitution.

7. A residential college within a university.

a. often House A legislative or deliberative assembly.

b. The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.

c. A quorum of such an assembly.

9. often House A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family: the House of Orange.

10.

a. One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.

b. The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens. Also called mansion.

11. House music.

v. (houz) housed, hous·ing, hous·es

v.tr.

1. To provide living quarters for; lodge: The cottage housed ten students.

2. To shelter, keep, or store in or as if in a house: a library housing rare books.

3. To contain; harbor.

4. To fit into a socket or mortise.

5. Nautical To secure or stow safely.

v.intr.

1. To reside; dwell.

2. To take shelter.

Idioms:

like a house on fire/afire Informal

In an extremely speedy manner: ran away like a house on fire; tickets that sold like a house afire.

on the house

At the expense of the establishment; free: food and drinks on the house.

put/set (one's) house in order

To organize one's affairs in a sensible, logical way.

[Middle English hous, from Old English hs.]

house

Noun

1. a building used as a home; dwelling

2. the people in a house

3. a building for some specific purpose: beach house

4. a family or dynasty: the House of Windsor

5. a commercial company: auction house

6. a law-making body or the hall where it meets

7. a division of a large school: he was captain of the house rugby team

8. the audience in a theatre or cinema

9. Astrol any of the 12 divisions of the zodiac

10. Informal a brothel

11. get on like a house on fire Informal (of people) to get on very well together

12. on the house (usually of drinks) paid for by the management

13. put one's house in order to settle or organize one's affairs

Adjective

(of wine) sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list: house red

Verb

[housing, housed]

1. to give accommodation to

2. to contain or cover (something) [Old English hūs]

House the inmates of a house collectively; a household or family; an assembly of legislative or deliberative persons; the members of a family, including ancestors and descendants. See also assembly.

Examples: House of Commons, 1548; of congregation [Oxford], 1831; of convocation, 1705; of David, 1382; of Lancaster, 1548; of Lords, 1635; of Parliament, 1545; of piety, 1599; of religion, 1419; of Representatives; of ill repute, 1726; of Stuart, 1789; of water [a cavity filled with water, Cornish mining term], 1881.

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	house - a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house" beach house - a house built on or near a beach boarding house, boardinghouse - a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" bungalow, cottage - a small house with a single story cabin - a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area chalet - a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style frat house, fraternity house, chapterhouse - a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity country house - a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country detached house, single dwelling - a house that stands alone doll's house, dollhouse - a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything duplex, duplex house, semidetached house - a house with two units sharing a common wall dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home, abode, domicile - housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" farmhouse - house for a farmer and family gatehouse - a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence guesthouse - a house separate from the main house; for housing guests hacienda - the main house on a ranch or large estate library - a room where books are kept; "they had brandy in the library" hunting lodge, lodge - a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter lodging house, rooming house - a house where rooms are rented attic, garret, loft - floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage maisonette, maisonnette - a small house manse, mansion house, mansion, residence, hall - a large and imposing house porch - a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance ranch house - a one story house with a low pitched roof residence - the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president); "he refused to live in the governor's residence" row house, town house - a house that is one of a row of identical houses situated side by side and sharing common walls safe house - a house used as a hiding place or refuge by members of certain organizations saltbox - a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind adobe house, sod house, soddy - a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses solar house - a house designed to use solar radiation for heating; usually has large areas of glass in front of heat-absorbing materials study - a room used for reading and writing and studying; "he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study" tract house - one of many houses of similar design constructed together on a tract of land villa - detached or semidetached suburban house
	2.	house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house" business firm, firm corp, corporation - a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern - a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" accounting firm - a firm of accountants who provide accounting and auditing services for a fee consulting company, consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee publisher, publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house - a firm in the publishing business dealer - a firm engaged in trading law firm - a firm of lawyers auction house - a firm that conducts auctions
	3.	house - the members of a religious community living together community - a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"
	4.	house - the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema; "the house applauded"; "he counted the house" audience - a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance; "the audience applauded"; "someone in the audience began to cough" claque - a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance
	5.	house - an official assembly having legislative powers; "a bicameral legislature has two houses" House of Representatives, U.S. House, U.S. House of Representatives, United States House of Representatives, US House, US House of Representatives - the lower legislative house of the United States Congress House of Burgesses - the lower house of legislature in colonial Virginia British House of Commons, House of Commons - the lower house of the British parliament British House of Lords, House of Lords - the upper house of the British parliament law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislature, general assembly - persons who make or amend or repeal laws Dail, Dail Eireann - the lower house of the parliament of the Irish Republic Seanad, Seanad Eireann - the upper house of the parliament of the Irish Republic
	6.	house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York" kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, family line, sept, folk, family - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty - royal persons collectively; "the wedding was attended by royalty" Medici - aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century
	7.	house - play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults; "the children were playing house" child's play, play - activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules; "Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child"
	8.	house - (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided mansion, planetary house, sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign astrology, star divination - a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon region, part - the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space" zodiac - a belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic; divided into 12 constellations or signs for astrological purposes
	9.	house - the management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet" management - those in charge of running a business
	10.	house - a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" family, household, menage, home broken home - a family in which the parents have separated or divorced conjugal family, nuclear family - a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner extended family - a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives foster family - the family of a fosterling foster home - a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) menage a trois - household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations social unit, unit - an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"
	11.	house - a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented; "the house was full" theater, theatre arena theater, theater in the round - a theater arranged with seats around at least three sides of the stage ticket booth, ticket office, box office - the office where tickets of admission are sold building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" movie house, movie theater, movie theatre, picture palace, cinema - a theater where films are shown dress circle, circle - a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra; "they had excellent seats in the dress circle" dinner theater, dinner theatre - a theater at which dinner is included in the price of admission dressing room - a room in which you can change clothes greenroom - a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors home theater, home theatre - television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater little theater, little theatre - a small theater for experimental drama or collegiate or community groups music hall, vaudeville theater, vaudeville theatre - a theater in which vaudeville is staged opera house, opera - a building where musical dramas are performed orchestra - seating on the main floor in a theater orchestra pit, pit - lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers parquet - seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle parquet circle, parterre - seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies) stage - a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box" standing room - room for passengers or spectators to stand; "there was standing room for thousands more people" theater stage, theatre stage - a stage in a theater on which actors can perform tiered seat - seating that is arranged in sloping tiers so that spectators in the back can see over the heads of those in front dramatic art, dramaturgy, theater, theatre, dramatics - the art of writing and producing plays
	12.	house - a building in which something is sheltered or located; "they had a large carriage house" bagnio, bathhouse - a building containing public baths building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" courthouse - a building that houses judicial courts field house, sports arena - a building for indoor sports icehouse - a house for storing ice meat house - a small house (on a farm) where meat is stored oast house - a building containing an oast (a kiln for drying hops); usually has a conical or pyramidal roof pump house, pumping station - a house where pumps (e.g. to irrigate) are installed and operated meat house, smokehouse - a small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish stash house - a house where weapons and supplies are hidden; "attacks on stash houses is the most frequently used method of counterterrorism"
Verb	1.	house - contain or cover; "This box houses the gears" accommodate, admit, hold - have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people"
	2.	house - provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town" domiciliate, put up rehouse - put up in a new or different housing home - provide with, or send to, a home lodge, accommodate - provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester" chamber - place in a chamber shelter - provide shelter for; "After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people" take in - provide with shelter

house

noun 1. home, residence, dwelling, building, pad (slang) homestead, edifice, abode, habitation, domicile, whare N.Z.

noun 2. household, family, ménage

noun 3. firm, company, business, concern, organization, partnership, establishment, outfit (informal)

noun 4. assembly, parliament, Commons, legislative body

noun 5. restaurant, inn, hotel, pub Brit. (informal) tavern, public house, hostelry

noun 6. dynasty, line, race, tribe, clan, ancestry, lineage, family tree, kindred

verb 7. accommodate, board, quarter, take in, put up, lodge, harbour, billet, domicile

verb 8. contain, keep, hold, cover, store, protect, shelter

verb 9. take, accommodate, sleep, provide shelter for, give a bed to >> on the house free, for free (informal) for nothing, free of charge, gratis, without expense

Translations

house n [haus] [pl houses] [ˈhauzɪz] → casa;

(POL) → cámara;

(THEAT) → sala

vt [hauz] [+ person] → alojar;

(also: at/to my house) → en/a mi casa;

the House (of Commons/Lords) (BRIT) → la Cámara de los Comunes/Lores;

the House (of Representatives) (US) → la Cámara de Representantes;

it's on the house (fig) → la casa invita

house n [haus] [houses , pl ] [ˈhauzɪz] → maison f;

(Pol) → chambre f;

(Theat) → salle f; auditoire m

vt [hauz] [+ person] → loger, héberger;

at (or to) my house → chez moi;

the House of Commons/of Lords (Brit) → la Chambre des communes/des lords;

the House (of Representatives) (US) → la Chambre des représentants;

on the house (fig) → aux frais de la maison

House of Commons/of LordsLe parlement en Grande-Bretagne est constitué de deux assemblées: la House of Commons, présidée par le "Speaker" et composée de plus de 600 députés (les "MP") élus au suffrage universel direct. Ceux-ci reçoivent tous un salaire. La Chambre des communes siège environ 175 jours par an. La House of Lords, présidée par le "Lord Chancellor" et composée de membres du haut clergé et de lords séculiers dont le titre est, soit héréditaire, soit attribué par le souverain (dans ce dernier cas, il peut être héréditaire ou à vie); elle peut amender certains projets de loi votés par la House of Commons, mais elle n'est pas habilitée à débattre des projets de lois de finances. La House of Lords fait également office de la juridiction suprême en Angleterre et au pays de Galles.