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house

noun
/ˈhaʊ̯s/US/ˈhæʊ̯s//haʊz//haʊs/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Middle English hous English house From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). More at hose. Eclipsed non-native Middle English mees, meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman mes, mies, meis, maisun (“house”). The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.) Cognates Cognate with Scots hoose, oos (“house”), Yola heouse, houze, howze (“house”), North Frisian hüs (“house”), Saterland Frisian Huus, Húus (“house”), West Frisian hûs (“house”), Alemannic German hous, hus, husch, hüs, hüüsch (“house”), Bavarian, Cimbrian, Mòcheno haus (“house”), Central Franconian Haus, Hous, Huus (“home”), Dutch huis (“house”), Dutch Low Saxon hoes, huus (“house”), German Haus, Hauß (“house”), German Low German Huus (“house”), Limburgish hoes, Huus (“house”), Luxembourgish Haus (“house”), Vilamovian haojs, haus, hoüz (“house”), Yiddish הויז (hoyz, “house”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk hus (“house”), Elfdalian aus (“house”), Faroese and Icelandic hús (“house”), Swedish hus, hws (“house”), Crimean Gothic hus (“house”); also Cornish kudha (“to conceal, hide”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin cutis (“human skin; hide, leather”), Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to cover, hide”), Tocharian A kāc (“hide, skin”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “to cover”).

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-✻
  3. inherited from *hūsą✻ — “house”
  4. inherited from *hūs✻
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house”
  6. inherited from hous

Definitions

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

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

  2. A container

    A container; a thing which houses another.

  3. Size and quality of residential accommodations

    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.
  4. ›+ 33 more definitions

    1. A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or…

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

    2. The people who live in a house

      The people who live in a house; a household.

      • one that feared God with all his house

    3. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).

      • The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
      • On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.

    4. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

      • After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

    5. A building where a deliberative assembly meets

      A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.

      • The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.

    6. A dynasty

      A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.

      • A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.

    7. A place of rest or repose.

      • Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.
      • Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […].

    8. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other…

      A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.

      • 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…

      An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.

    10. One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

      • 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. The fourth Lenormand card.

    12. A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

    13. The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

    14. Lotto

      Lotto; bingo.

    15. 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. A small stand of trees in a swamp.

    17. A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a…

      A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.

    18. The end zone.

    19. 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.
      • 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.

    20. To admit to residence

      To admit to residence; to harbor.

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

    21. To take shelter or lodging

      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.

    22. To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

      • Where Saturn houses.

    23. To contain or cover mechanical parts.

    24. 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.

    25. To drive to a shelter.

      • Euen now we hous'd him in the Abbey heere

    26. To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

      • Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre

    27. To stow in a safe place

      To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

      • to house the upper spars

    28. To eat

      To eat; especially, to scarf down.

      • All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.

    29. 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.

    30. A particular chamber of political representation

      • Prop. 50 proponents, including Newsom and Democrats in the state Legislature and in Congress, say the proposition is needed to counteract Texas’ recent redistricting efforts to give the GOP more House seats.

    31. A placename

      A placename:

    32. A topographic surname from Middle English for someone residing in a house (as opposed to…

      A topographic surname from Middle English for someone residing in a house (as opposed to a hut) or in a religious house.

      • The incumbent and embattled Henyard lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary to Trustee Jason House by a landslide, with House winning nearly 90% of the vote.

    33. Christ Church, Oxford.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at house. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at house. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at house

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA