house

UK /haʊs/ US /hæʊs/

noun 6verb 5name 5

Collocations

(noun.) building that is made for one family to live in

ADJ

beautiful, comfortable, delightful, elegant, fine, grand, handsome, lovely, luxurious, magnificent, posh, pretty, splendid

dream

After winning the lottery, she finally bought the dream house she had always wanted.

depressing, dingy, gloomy, ugly | derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, shabby, untidy | detached, semi-detached, terrace/terraced | big, enormous, gigantic, huge, large, palatial, spacious

rambling

My grandparents' rambling house had so many rooms that visitors often needed directions to find the bathroom.

little, modest, small, tiny

We bought a little house near the beach last summer.

great, manor, mansion

The old manor house had belonged to the same family for over two hundred years.

farm (also farmhouse), ranch | ancestral | communal | summer | tree

halfway, safe

After leaving the hospital, she stayed at a halfway house before moving into her own apartment.

VERB + HOUSE

live in, occupy

My grandparents have lived in that old house near the river for over forty years.

My brother and I share a house in the city center with our two cousins.

buy, rent | sell

let (out)

My parents decided to let out their house while they were working abroad for two years.

repossess

The bank will repossess their house if they miss the next payment.

move, move into, move out of

We're planning to move into a bigger house next spring when the children start school.

set up

After getting married, they decided to set up house in a small village near the coast.

keep

My grandmother kept house for fifty years before she retired.

play (at)

My daughter likes to play house with her friends in the backyard on weekends.

build | demolish, knock down, tear down | maintain

decorate, do up, redecorate, refurbish, renovate

My parents decided to renovate their old farmhouse before retiring there next year.

furnish | insulate, rewire

extend

They decided to extend the house after their second child was born.

HOUSE + VERB

be situated, lie, stand

The old farmhouse sat on a hill overlooking the valley.

face sth, overlook sth

Our new house faces the garden, so we get plenty of natural light in the afternoons.

loom

A large Victorian mansion loomed in the distance as we drove toward the small town.

be worth sth | collapse, fall down | burn down, catch fire | come into view

HOUSE + NOUN

agent

buyer, owner

The new house owner planted trees in the garden on her first day.

move

We hired a moving company to handle our house move next month.

call

The nurse visits patients at home and charges less for house calls than office visits.

arrest

The suspected criminal has been under house arrest for three months while waiting for trial.

dust | blaze, fire

party, -warming

We're throwing a house party next weekend and everyone from the office is coming.

husband

My brother decided to become a house husband after their baby was born last year.

plant | fly, mouse, sparrow, etc.

PREP

at sb's/the ~

We had a wonderful dinner party at their house last Saturday evening.

from ~ to ~

The charity workers traveled from house to house delivering food packages to families in need.

in a/the ~

We spent the entire afternoon in the house because of the heavy rain outside.

PHRASES

house-to-house

The charity workers conducted house-to-house visits to collect donations for the homeless shelter.

(noun.) all the people who live in one house

ADJ

friendly, happy

VERB + HOUSE

wake (up)

If you play your music too loud, you'll wake the house up.

(noun.) in a theatre/cinema

ADJ

empty | full, packed

VERB + HOUSE

play to

The famous musician played to a full house every night during her tour.

HOUSE + NOUN

lights | manager

PHRASES

bring the house down | front-of-house

(verb.)

ADV

adequately

Many families in the refugee camp were not adequately housed during the winter months.

badly, inadequately

Many families in the refugee camp were inadequately housed and lacked access to clean water.

temporarily

We temporarily housed our guests in the spare bedroom while their apartment was being repaired.

Definitions

noun

A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

This is my house and my family's ancestral home.

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,[…].

A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

A container; a thing which houses another.

The purposes of food are to promote growth, to supply force and heat, and to furnish material to repair the waste which is constantly taking place in the body. Every breath, every thought, every motion, wears out some portion of the delicate and wonderful house in which we live.

Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.

Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.

A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.

verb

To keep within a structure or container.

The car is housed in the garage.

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.

To admit to residence; to harbor.

Palladius wished him [...] to house all the Helots.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.

You shall not house with me.

The federation yesterday vowed to occupy Uotsuri, one of the islands, and build a permanent structure to house six members.

To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

Where Saturn houses.

To contain or cover mechanical parts.

noun

House music.

[…] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture s

noun — the members of a business organization that owns or operates

firm

noun — a social unit living together

noun — (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is d

verb — provide housing for

domiciliate

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

house of cards

A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.

eat someone out of house and home

To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner.

[H]e hath eaten me out of houſe and home, he hath put all my ſubſtance into that fat belly of his, but I will haue ſome of it out againe, or I will ride thee a nights like the mare

out of house and home

In a manner that deprives someone of a dwelling place or some usage thereof.

bring down the house

To garner enthusiastic or wild applause or laughter.

"Well, your recitations just brought down the house, Anne. That sad one was simply splendid."

house poor

In financial difficulty because of the excessive cost of owning a house, or because the cost of home ownership forms too high a proportion of household income.

Example Bank

This is my house and my family's ancestral home.

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

The car is housed in the garage.

Wiktionary

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.

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Usage Notes

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