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house

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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”). More at hose.

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NounEdit

 
The house of a Japanese rice farmer

house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)

  1. 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.
  2. The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9thc.]
    • Bible, Acts x.2:
      one that feared God with all his house
  3. 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.
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
  4. 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.
    • 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.
  5. (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.
  6. 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.
  7. (figuratively) a place of rest or repose. [from 9thc.]
  8. 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.
  9. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10thc.]
  10. (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.
  11. (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
  12. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16thc.]
  13. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19thc.]
  14. Lotto; bingo. [from 20thc.]
  15. (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.
  16. (US, dialectal) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
SynonymsEdit
  • (establishment): shop
  • (company or organisation): shop
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TranslationsEdit
bingo — see bingo
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VerbEdit

house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
    • Sir Philip Sidney
      Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.
  3. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
    • Shakespeare
      You shall not house with me.
  4. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
    • Dryden
      Where Saturn houses.
  5. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
  6. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  7. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sandys to this entry?)
  8. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
    to house the upper spars
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Etymology 2Edit

Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.

NounEdit

house (uncountable)

  2. (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:
      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.
    • 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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

house n

  1. gosling

DeclensionEdit

Declension
singular plural
nominative house housata
genitive housete housat
dative houseti housatům
accusative house housata
vocative house housata
locative houseti housatech
instrumental housetem housaty

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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house m (uncountable)

  1. house music, house

FinnishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈhou̯se/, [ˈho̞u̯s̠e̞]
  • Hyphenation: hou‧se

NounEdit

house (uncountable)

  1. (music) house music, house

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

NounEdit

house f (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (genre of music)

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HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English house.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒuz]
  • Hyphenation: house

NounEdit

house (plural house-ok)

  1. (music) house, house music (type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
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
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

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

EtymologyEdit

From English house, house music

NounEdit

house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)

  1. house music, house

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

NounEdit

house m

  1. house music, house

PolishEdit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

EtymologyEdit

From English house music.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

house m inan

  1. (music) house, house music
DeclensionEdit
declension of house
singular
nominative house
genitive house'u
dative house'owi
accusative house
instrumental house'em
locative housie
vocative housie

Further readingEdit

  • house in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

house m

  1. house music, house

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

house m (uncountable)

  1. house music, house

SwedishEdit

NounEdit

house c

  1. house music, house

DeclensionEdit

Declension of house 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative house housen — —
Genitive houses housens — —

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