house
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Contents
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, Low German Huus, German Haus, Danish hus, Norwegian Bokmål hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kew- (“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.
Alternative formsEdit
- howse (obsolete)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. [from 9thc.]
- This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen, OCLC 12026604; republished New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919, OCLC 491297620:
- The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them, […].
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
- 2007 November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, in Newsweek:
- Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.
- The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9thc.]
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10thc.]
- The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
- On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10thc.]
- A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.[from 10thc.]
- One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
- The house always wins.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10thc.]
- After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre[1]:
- Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10thc.]
- The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10thc.]
- A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
- (figuratively) a place of rest or repose. [from 9thc.]
- 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour
- Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.
- 1815, Walter Scott, The Lord of the Isles
- Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […].
- 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19thc.]
- I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10thc.]
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14thc.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p.313:
- 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.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p.313:
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16thc.]
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19thc.]
- Lotto; bingo. [from 20thc.]
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.
- (US, dialectal) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
SynonymsEdit
HypernymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
- alehouse
- auction house
- backhouse
- basket house
- birdhouse
- boathouse
- boghouse
- chapter house
- coffee house
- common house
- cophouse
- country house
- doghouse
- doll's house
- dosshouse
- flophouse
- frame house
- full house
- glasshouse
- Government House
- Greek house
- greenhouse
- grow house
- guesthouse, guest house
- halfway house
- haunted house
- house of assembly
- House of Commons
- house of correction
- house of detention
- house of God
- house of ill fame
- house of ill repute
- House of Lords
- house of office
- house of worship
- Houses of Parliament
- jakeshouse
- lighthouse
- little house
- longhouse, long-house, long house
- lower house
- meetinghouse, meeting house
- move house
- outhouse
- playhouse
- play house
- poorhouse
- prisonhouse
- privy house
- public house
- publishing house
- pumphouse, pump house
- royal house
- safehouse
- schoolhouse, school house
- scouthouse
- shithouse
- shophouse
- siegehouse
- storehouse
- tea house
- tiny house
- town house
- tribal house
- upper house
- warehouse
- wartime house
- weather house
- Wendy house
- White House
- whorehouse
Derived termsEdit
- alehouse
- backhouse
- birdhouse
- boathouse
- boghouse
- bookhouse
- bring down the house
- doghouse
- dosshouse
- draught-house
- flophouse
- get on like a house on fire
- glasshouse
- greenhouse
- guesthouse
- hice
- house arrest
- houseboat
- housebreaker
- housecoat
- house detective
- household
- householder
- housekeeper
- housekeeping
- house leader
- house lights
- housemaid
- house mouse
- house music
- houseplant
- house poor
- house slave
- house-to-house
- house-train
- house warming
- housewife
- house wine
- housework
- housing
- housy-housy
- it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
- jakeshouse
- lighthouse
- lower house
- meeting house
- meetinghouse
- move house
- on the house
- outhouse
- penthouse
- petty-house
- playhouse
- poorhouse
- prisonhouse
- pumphouse
- put one's house in order
- safehouse
- schoolhouse
- shithouse
- shophouse
- shouse
- sickhouse
- siegehouse
- storehouse
- warehouse
- whorehouse
- wirehouse
- woodhouse
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
human abode
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archetypal structure of a human abode
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home for animal
theatre
debating chamber for government politicians
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an establishment, business
the inner workings, as of a clock
dynasty, familiar descendance
astrology: one of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart
bingo — see bingo
Further readingEdit
house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - house (astrology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- house (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English housen, from Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- The car is housed in the garage.
- Evelyn
- House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.
- Sir Philip Sidney
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- Shakespeare
- You shall not house with me.
- Shakespeare
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- Dryden
- Where Saturn houses.
- Dryden
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sandys to this entry?)
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- to house the upper spars
SynonymsEdit
- (keep within a structure or container): store
- (admit to residence): accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up
- (contain or enclose mechanical parts): enclose
TranslationsEdit
keep within a structure or container
admit to residence
to take shelter
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contain or enclose mechanical parts
Etymology 3Edit
Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.
NounEdit
house (uncountable)
- (music) House music.
- 1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 73:
- […] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.
- 2001 March, Philip Sherburne, “Exos, Strength [album review]”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 91, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, ISSN 1074-6978, page 66:
- 2006, Mark Jonathan Butler, Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 45:
- 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.
TranslationsEdit
genre of music — see house music
CzechEdit
DutchEdit
FinnishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
house (uncountable)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of house (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | house | — | |
| genitive | housen | — | |
| partitive | housea | — | |
| illative | houseen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | house | — | |
| accusative | nom. | house | — |
| gen. | housen | ||
| genitive | housen | — | |
| partitive | housea | — | |
| inessive | housessa | — | |
| elative | housesta | — | |
| illative | houseen | — | |
| adessive | housella | — | |
| ablative | houselta | — | |
| allative | houselle | — | |
| essive | housena | — | |
| translative | houseksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | housetta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /aws/
NounEdit
house f (uncountable)
- house music, house (genre of music)
SynonymsEdit
AnagramsEdit
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
house (plural house-ok)
- (music) house, house music (type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)
DeclensionEdit
| Possessive forms of house | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | house-om | house-aim |
| 2nd person sing. | house-od | house-aid |
| 3rd person sing. | house-a | house-ai |
| 1st person plural | house-unk | house-aink |
| 2nd person plural | house-otok | house-aitok |
| 3rd person plural | house-uk | house-aik |
Derived termsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English house, house music
NounEdit
house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English house music.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
house m inan
DeclensionEdit
declension of house
Further readingEdit
- house in Polish dictionaries at PWN