houses
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Definitions ofhouses
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
Example: "This is my house and my family's ancestral home."
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
Example: "On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house."
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A theatre.
Example: "After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house."
- A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
Example: "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.
Example: "A curse lay upon the House of Atreus."
- A place of rest or repose.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
Example: "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.
- One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- The fourth Lenormand card.
- A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
- The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- Lotto; bingo.
- A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
Example: "As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house."
- 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.
- To keep within a structure or container.
Example: "The car is housed in the garage."
- To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- To drive to a shelter.
- To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
Example: "to house the upper spars"
- To eat.
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