house

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). 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.)

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Noun[edit]

The house of a Japanese rice farmer
A city-house. In this photo, its garden doesn't appear

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 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:
      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.
    1. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
  2. (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations.
    • 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.
  3. A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
  4. The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]
  5. 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.
    1. 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.
    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 10th c.]
      One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
      The house always wins.
    3. (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.
  6. 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.
  7. A theatre.
    After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
    • 1964, Northwest Ohio Quarterly, volume 36, page 185:
      The farce comedy which followed, When We're Married by Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation. The production filled the house.
  8. (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.
  9. 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.
  10. (figurative) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
  11. 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.
  12. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
  13. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 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.
  14. (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
  15. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
  16. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
  17. Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
  18. (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.
  19. (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
  20. (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.
Synonyms[edit]
  • (establishment): shop
  • (company or organisation): shop
Hypernyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Nigerian Pidgin: haus
  • Tok Pisin: haus
  • Sranan Tongo: oso
Translations[edit]
See house/translations § Noun.
Further reading[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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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”).

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Verb[edit]

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.
    • 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, 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.
  2. (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
  3. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
  4. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
  5. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
  6. (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
    The joists were housed into the side walls, rather than being hung from them.
  7. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
  8. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
    • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
      Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre
  9. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
    to house the upper spars
  10. (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.
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Etymology 3[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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, 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.
Translations[edit]
genre of music — see house music

Chinese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English house.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

house

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) mansion; large house (Classifier: 間／间 c)

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

house n

  1. gosling
Declension[edit]
Declension of house (t-stem neuter)
singular plural
nominative house housata
genitive housete housat
dative houseti housatům
accusative house housata
vocative house housata
locative houseti housatech
instrumental housetem housaty

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

house m inan

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)
Declension[edit]
Declension of house (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
singular plural
nominative house housy
genitive housu housů
dative housu housům
accusative house housy
vocative house housy
locative housu housech
instrumental housem housy

Further reading[edit]

  • house in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • house in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • house in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

house m (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English house.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑu̯s/, [ˈhɑ̝u̯s̠]
  • Syllabification(key): hou‧se

Noun[edit]

house (uncountable)

  1. (music) house music, house (a genre of music)

Declension[edit]

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 See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of house (type nalle)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative houseni —
accusative nom. houseni —
gen. houseni
genitive houseni —
partitive houseani —
inessive housessani —
elative housestani —
illative houseeni —
adessive housellani —
ablative houseltani —
allative houselleni —
essive housenani —
translative housekseni —
instructive — —
abessive housettani —
comitative — —
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative housesi —
accusative nom. housesi —
gen. housesi
genitive housesi —
partitive houseasi —
inessive housessasi —
elative housestasi —
illative houseesi —
adessive housellasi —
ablative houseltasi —
allative housellesi —
essive housenasi —
translative houseksesi —
instructive — —
abessive housettasi —
comitative — —
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative housemme —
accusative nom. housemme —
gen. housemme
genitive housemme —
partitive houseamme —
inessive housessamme —
elative housestamme —
illative houseemme —
adessive housellamme —
ablative houseltamme —
allative housellemme —
essive housenamme —
translative houseksemme —
instructive — —
abessive housettamme —
comitative — —
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative housenne —
accusative nom. housenne —
gen. housenne
genitive housenne —
partitive houseanne —
inessive housessanne —
elative housestanne —
illative houseenne —
adessive housellanne —
ablative houseltanne —
allative housellenne —
essive housenanne —
translative houseksenne —
instructive — —
abessive housettanne —
comitative — —
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative housensa —
accusative nom. housensa —
gen. housensa
genitive housensa —
partitive houseaan
houseansa 		—
inessive housessaan
housessansa 		—
elative housestaan
housestansa 		—
illative houseensa —
adessive housellaan
housellansa 		—
ablative houseltaan
houseltansa 		—
allative houselleen
housellensa 		—
essive housenaan
housenansa 		—
translative housekseen
houseksensa 		—
instructive — —
abessive housettaan
housettansa 		—
comitative — —

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

house f (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)
    Synonym: house music

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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English house.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

house (plural house-ok)

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

Declension[edit]

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
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 terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Laczkó, Krisztina; Attila Mártonfi (2006) Helyesírás [Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, →ISBN

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

house

  1. Alternative form of hous

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

house

  1. Alternative form of housen

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb

Etymology[edit]

From English house, house music.

Noun[edit]

house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)

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References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Noun[edit]

house m

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English house music. Doublet of chyża (“barn”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /xaws/
  • Rhymes: -aws
  • Syllabification: house

Noun[edit]

house m inan

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)

Declension[edit]

Declension of house
singular
nominative house
genitive house'u
dative house'owi
accusative house
instrumental house'em
locative housie
vocative housie

Derived terms[edit]

adjectives

Further reading[edit]

  • house in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • house in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English house (music).

Noun[edit]

house m (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)
    Synonym: música house

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English house.

Noun[edit]

house m (uncountable)

  1. house music

Declension[edit]

declension of house (singular only)
singular
m gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) house houseul
genitive/dative (unui) house houseului
vocative houseule

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English house music.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

house m (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)
    Synonym: música house

Usage notes[edit]

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English house music.

Noun[edit]

house c

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)

Declension[edit]

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

Synonyms[edit]

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