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Definitions of house:

noun: play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
Example: "The children were playing house"
noun: a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
Example: "He has a house on Cape Cod"
noun: a building in which something is sheltered or located
Example: "They had a large carriage house"
noun: aristocratic family line
Example: "The House of York"
noun: an official assembly having legislative powers
Example: "The legislature has two houses"
noun: the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
Example: "The house applauded"
noun: the members of a religious community living together
noun: the management of a gambling house or casino
Example: "The house gets a percentage of every bet"
noun: members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
Example: "He worked for a brokerage house"
noun: a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
Example: "The house was full"
noun: a social unit living together
Example: "It was a good Christian household"
noun: (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
verb: provide housing for
Example: "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"
verb: contain or cover
Example: "This box houses the gears"
name: A surname (common: 1 in 5882 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #688)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to house: (890 results)
Synonyms:
business firm, family, firm, home, household, mansion, menage, planetary house, put up, sign, sign of the zodiac, theater, theatre

Contains:
attic, box office, circle, claque, dress circle, dressing room, garret, greenroom, library, loft, orchestra, orchestra pit, parquet, parquet circle, parterre, pit, porch, stage, standing room, study, theater stage, theatre stage, ticket booth, ticket office, tiered seats

Part of:
zodiac

More general:
abode, audience, bear, bield, building, business, business concern, business organization, carry, child's play, community, concern, contain, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, edifice, family line, folk, general assembly, habitation, hold, kinfolk, kinsfolk, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislature, part, phratry, play, region, sept, shelter, social unit, unit

More specific:
accommodate, accounting firm, adobe house, aquarius, aquarius the water bearer, arena theater, aries, aries the ram, auction house, bagnio, bathhouse, beach house, boarding house, boardinghouse, bungalow, cabin, cancer, cancer the crab, capricon the goat, capricorn, chalet, chamber, chapterhouse, cinema, conjugal family, consulting company, consulting firm, cottage, country house, courthouse, dail eireann, dail, dealer, detached house, dollhouse, door, duplex, duplex house, extended family, farmhouse, field house, foster home, fraternity house, frat house, gatehouse, gemini, gemini the twins, guesthouse, hacienda, hall, house of commons, house of lords, house of representatives, hunting lodge, icehouse, law firm, leo, leo the lion, libra, libra the balance, libra the scales, lodge, maisonnette, manse, mansion house, meat house, movie house, movie theater, movie theatre, music hall, nuclear family, oast house, opera, opera house, picture palace, pisces, pisces the fishes, publisher, publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house, pump house, pumping station, ranch house, rehouse, residence, royal family, royal house, royal line, royalty, sagittarius, sagittarius the archer, saltbox, scorpio, scorpio the scorpion, seanad eireann, seanad, semidetached house, single dwelling, smokehouse, soddy, sod house, solar house, sports arena, take in, taurus, taurus the bull, theater in the round, vaudeville theater, vaudeville theatre, villa, virgo, virgo the virgin

Often used in the same context:
adventure, airplane, announce, ant, apartment, appear, asked, balloon, balls, banana, bang, bar, basement, basket, bat, beam, bed, blanket, block, blue, boat, book, boss, box, bread, bug, buy, cage, cake, came, cap, car, career, careful, carpet, cars, casa, castle, cat, celebrate, celebration, cellar, center, chair, childhood, children, chill, chores, city, clothes, club, coast, coat, com, coming, computer, condo, construction, corner, couch, country, court, cow, crash, crew, crib, crowd, cruise, curse, dad, daily, dancing, deck, defense, delight, desk, dinner, dog, doing, doll, doom, dress, drive, eggs, elephant, estate, eve, evening, everywhere, farm, fat, feet, fence, fifty, figure, finger, fire, fish, fist, fix, flash, floor, food, fork, forward, fox, frank, friday, garage, garden, george, ghost, gifts, girl, girls, glee, goes, golf, grand, grave, grin, ham, hat, hi, hills, homes, hood, horse, hose, hosue, hotel, hous, houses, housing, how, hut, ice, innocent, island, job, john, june, keys, kids, kin, kitchen, lake, lauren, lazy, lick, lighthouse, location, looking, loud, lucky, man, manor, map, marijuana, married, max, meadow, meant, money, monster, month, mother, mouth, moved, movies, nap, nest, net, new, new york, north, nose, office, opportunity, our, ouse, out, pad, parties, party, pet, phone, pieces, pig, pizza, place, plane, point, pool, poor, pound, presents, president, prince, product, property, public, quit, rachel, rage, ran, ranch, ready, rent, river, road, rock, roof, room, rug, ryan, sam, scared, scene, school, search, seat, serious, shack, ship, shoe, shoes, shout, shower, sigh, singing, site, slowly, smell, sold, sometimes, south, spell, spider, sport, sports, squirrel, stairs, state, status, sticks, stirring, stones, street, stuff, stumble, suck, table, telephone, thousand, tower, town, toys, train, treat, tree, truck, umbrella, until, visit, vows, walls, warehouse, wave, week, weekend, welcome, west, white, wife, window, windows, woman, woods, working, wow, yard, yelled

Appears in the definition of:
., access, accrue, acheta, address, adiantum tenerum farleyense, advocate, ahead of time, air-condition, alarm, andrew jackson downing, appoint, appointed, apportionment, archduchess, archduke, ascetically, ask over, ask round, assess, astor, attack, available, back, backbench, backbencher, backyard, baiomys taylori, bank, banking game, barbados maidenhair, bare, barrack, bay window, bethel, big top, blueprint, board, boarder, bog, bog down, bow window, bravely, breathe, bristly, british house of commons, british house of lords, brothel keeper, brownstone, burn, burst, capitol, capitol building, carpodacus, casual, cat burglar, chateau, chatelaine, circus tent, clatter, clean, clean house, clear, cleek, climb, climb up, close, common mosquito, company, condominium, congressional district, congressman, congresswoman, country doctor, cover, covet, crossbench, crossbencher, culex pipiens, cursory, curtilage, custody, dacha, darkened, decay, deceive, delightfully, design, destined, destroy, devices, disclose, disinfest, disparaging, do-it-yourself, doll's house, door-to-door, dooryard, dosshouse, downing, drippage, dripping, driveway, drop by, earl of warwick, effects, embowered, emplace, engulfed, envelop, escape, expand, fall, family room, farley maidenhair, farley maidenhair fern, farther, filled, first, fixer-upper, flat, flophouse, flybridge, fly bridge, flying bridge, for a song, forewarn, free house, front bench, frontbencher, front room, front yard, furnish, gardner, gate, genus acheta, genus carpodacus, genus mus, genus rattus, glory fern, go out, grotesquely, grounds, hands, hanover, hanoverian, hanoverian line, haunted, heat, helpful, henry tudor, henry vii, hewn, home buyer, housebreak, housebreaker, houseclean, housecleaning, housedog, houseful, houseguest, house guest, house husband, housekeeping, house of cards, house of hanover, house of lancaster, house of york, housepaint, house paint, house painting, house party, house-proud, houseroom, house sitter, houses of parliament, house-to-house, housetop, housework, housing start, imprison, improvise, invite, isabella stewart gardner, jeannette rankin, lackadaisically, lancaster, lancastrian, lancastrian line, land, lethargically, light-haired, live, live in, live out, living room, living-room, lock up, lodger, lodging house, look, lord chancellor, lord high chancellor, lumber room, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, madam, maisonette, malathion, manageably, manufactured home, mary ludwig hays mccauley, mary mccauley, master bedroom, mccauley, megabucks, member of parliament, mercilessly, mess, messuage, metamorphosis, mobile home, mod con, mold, molly pitcher, monkey bridge, mortgaged, move in, move out, mus, nancy witcher astor, nearer, neglect, negotiate, neighbor, nicely, old, operation, ordered, orient, oriented, other than, oval office, overrule, overshadow, painting, parliamentarian, parlor, parlour, pass, passer montanus, peel, peeling, peer of the realm, percolate, personal effects, pitter-patter, planter, playhouse, plaza, possess, poster, post horse, potboy, potman, press corps, pressure-wash, pretentious, private road, probable cause, projectionist, publican, pump room, raid, rankin, rationalize away, rattus, reason, rebuild, reception room, recommit, reconstruct, redecorate, redo, relinquish, remodel, remodeled, renovation, rental, rent collector, renting, representative, resident commissioner, retrofit, revamp, richard neville, rid, ridicule, roofless, roomer, rooming house, round top, row house, run, rusticate, safe house, scantling, secured, semidetached, senate, separate, serenade, set, shoddily, shooting box, shooting lodge, shutter, side, side yard, silent, single-handed, single-handedly, sitting room, slam-bang, sleep in, sleep out, sneak, snot-nosed, snug, soiree, sold-out, solidly, speaker, spring-clean, spring-cleaning, spruce, spruce up, stagger, startling, stash house, stillroom, still room, stipulate, stoep, stoop, stop, structural, strut, stud, subordinator, substantially, summer house, super, superannuated, superintendent, tame, tastefully, tastelessly, tatty, tavern keeper, tenement, tenement house, terrace, terraced house, terrasse, thatch, thatched roof, theatrically, the kingmaker, to a t, top, town house, track, trailer camp, trailer park, transit, tree sparrow, unattainably, uncut, underfoot, underneath, under the circumstances, unhelpfully, unhewn, united states code, united states house of representatives, united states senate, unknown, unmanageably, unpainted, unrentable, unsold, update, u. s. code, u.s. house, us house, u.s. house of representatives, us house of representatives, us senate, valois, vegetate, viscountess astor, void, waggish, warmth, war of the roses, wars of the roses, warwick, wash, washout, ways and means committee, weathered, wendy house, whisk, widow's walk, wire, wired, wreck, yon, yonder, york

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