house meaning

Noun: house  haws

1. 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" 
2. The members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
   "he worked for a brokerage house"
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Verb: house  hawz

1. Contain or cover
   "This box houses the gears" 
2. Provide housing for
   "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"
   - put up, domiciliate

Derived forms: housing, housed, houses

See also: housing

Type of: abode, accommodate, admit, audience, building, business, business concern, business organisation [Brit], business organization, child's play, community, concern, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, edifice, family, family line, folk, general assembly, habitation, hold, home, kinfolk, kinsfolk, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislature, management, part, phratry, play, region, sept, shelter, social unit, unit

Part of: zodiac

Encyclopedia: House, MD House, Edward Mandell House House, NM House, md House, North Carolina House, New Mexico

[British slang]
Noun. A contemporary dance music epitomised by its 4/4 beat and use of 'samples'. Vocals and melodies tend not follow the verse / chorus tradition, as they are just 'samples' which need to be fitted into the 4 bar repetitive base structure. It is a descendant of disco music born in North America. Sub-genres of house include tribal, deep, Italian etc.

[Architecture]
1.

A building or dwelling for human residence.

2.

A theater, as a legitimate house.

3. (Colloq.)

The auditorium in a theater; the audience space.

[Business]
noun (plural houses //)

BOUTIQUE INVESTMENT HOUSE, CLEARING HOUSE, COMPANIES HOUSE, DISCOUNT HOUSE, EXPORT HOUSE, FINANCE HOUSE, FRONT OF HOUSE, FULFILMENT HOUSE, IN-HOUSE, ISSUING HOUSE, OUT-OF-HOUSE

1 [C] (with other nouns)

a company involved in a particular kind of business; an institution of a particular kind:

a fashion/banking/publishing house

a house magazine/journal (= for the people who work in that company or business) See note at BUSINESS

2 House [sing.] (BrE) (abbr Ho.)

used in the names of office buildings:

Their offices are on the second floor of Chester House.

3 [C] (with other nouns)

a restaurant:

a coffee house

CLEAN adj.

[Finance]
Firms that conduct business as broker-dealers in securities or in the investment banking field are characterized as houses.

• in-house:    Adverb: in-houseDo ...
• on the house:    Adjective: on the ...
• house-to-house:    Adjective: house-t ...

Examples

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1. they first had a great house cleaning.
2. they assess his house at 15,000 yuan.
3. some of the days i will clean the house for him.
4. there are lots of pear trees near the house.
5. a wooden house sometimes has a brick facing.