house
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”). Compare also Northern Luri هۏش (höš, “house, home”). 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.)
Alternative formsEdit
- howse (obsolete)
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: hous, IPA(key): /haʊs/
- (Canada, Virginia) IPA(key): /hʌʊs/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) Audio (CA) (file) - Rhymes: -aʊs
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 9th c.]
- This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 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 9th c.]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 10:2:
- one that feared God with all his house
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
- 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 10th c.]
- 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 10th c.]
- One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
- The house always wins.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners (volume 29, page 169)
- 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.
- 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners (volume 29, page 169)
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
- 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.
- A theatre.
- After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]
- 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 10th c.]
- A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
- (figuratively) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
- 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour
- Like a pestilence, it doth infect
The houses of the brain.
- Like a pestilence, it doth infect
- 1815, Walter Scott, The Lord of the Isles
- Such hate was his, when his last breath
Renounced the peaceful house of death […].
- Such hate was his, when his last breath
- 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]
- 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 10th c.]
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
- 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 16th c.]
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
- Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
- (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, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
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
- counting house
- doghouse
- dosshouse
- draught-house
- dwelling house, dwellinghouse
- Fence Houses, Fencehouses
- flophouse
- get on like a house on fire
- glasshouse
- greenhouse
- guesthouse
- hice
- house arrest
- houseboat
- housebreaker
- housecoat
- house detective
- housefolk
- household
- householder
- housekeeper
- housekeeping
- house leader
- house lights
- housemaid
- house money
- 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
- meetinghouse
- meeting house
- 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
See house/translations § Noun.
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.
- 1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: Or The Gard’ners Almanac; […] [November.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, OCLC 988700438, page 29:
- 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.
- 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646:
- 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.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- 1590, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The First Booke] Chapter 1”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] William Ponsonbie, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127, page 41:
- Palladius wished him [...] to house all the Helots.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene v]:
- You shall not house with me.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- 1697, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- Where Saturn houses.
- (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
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat.
- 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
- All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.
- 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
SynonymsEdit
- (keep within a structure or container): store
- (admit to residence): accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up
- (contain or enclose mechanical parts): enclose
TranslationsEdit
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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
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
house n
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
house m anim
- house music, house
Further readingEdit
- house in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- house in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
house m (uncountable)
- house music, house
FinnishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
house (uncountable)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of house (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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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 | — | — |
Possessive forms of house (type nalle) | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | houseni | housemme |
2nd person | housesi | housenne |
3rd person | housensa |
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
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | house | house-ok |
accusative | house-t | house-okat |
dative | house-nak | house-oknak |
instrumental | house-zal | house-okkal |
causal-final | house-ért | house-okért |
translative | house-zá | house-okká |
terminative | house-ig | house-okig |
essive-formal | house-ként | house-okként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | house-ban | house-okban |
superessive | house-on | house-okon |
adessive | house-nál | house-oknál |
illative | house-ba | house-okba |
sublative | house-ra | house-okra |
allative | house-hoz | house-okhoz |
elative | house-ból | house-okból |
delative | house-ról | house-okról |
ablative | house-tól | house-októl |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
house-é | house-oké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
house-éi | house-okéi |
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
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Laczkó, Krisztina and Attila Mártonfi. Helyesírás (’Orthography’). Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2006. →ISBN
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
house
- Alternative form of hous
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English house, house music
NounEdit
house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
NounEdit
house m
- house music, house
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English house music.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
house m inan
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- house in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- house in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English house music
NounEdit
house m
- house music, house
- Synonym: música house
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English house music
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
house m (uncountable)
- house music, house
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English house music
NounEdit
house c
- house music, house
DeclensionEdit
Declension of house | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | house | housen | — | — |
Genitive | houses | housens | — | — |