house

house

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English

Etymology 1

    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.)

    Alternative forms

    • howse (obsolete)

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: hous, IPA(key): /haʊs/
    • (Canada, Virginia, Scotland) IPA(key): /hʌʊs/
    • (Geordie) IPA(key): /huːs/
    • (Ireland) IPA(key): /hæʊs/, /haʊs/
      • (Local Dublin) IPA(key): /hæʊs/, /hɛʊs/
      • (Ulster) IPA(key): /hɐʏs/, /hɛʉs/
      • (Munster) IPA(key): /hɐʊs/, /hʌʊs/
    • Rhymes: -aʊs

    Noun

    house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)

    2. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. [from 9th c.]
      1. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
    4. A container; a thing which houses another.
    6. (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
    8. A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
      Coordinate terms: apartment, condo, condominium, flat
    10. The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]
    12. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
      2. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]
      4. 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.]
      5. (historical) A workhouse.
    13. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
    14. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]
    15. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]
    16. (figurative) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
    17. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]
    18. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
    19. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
    20. (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
    21. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
    22. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
    23. Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
    24. (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
    25. (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
    26. (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.
    Synonyms
    • (establishment): shop
    • (company or organisation): shop
    Hypernyms
    • building
    • dwelling, residence
    Hyponyms
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    Translations
    Further reading
    • house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
    • house (astrology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
    • house (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

    Etymology 2

    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”).

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: houz, IPA(key): /haʊz/
    • Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz
    • Homophone: how's

    Verb

    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.
    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.
    7. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
    8. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
    9. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
    11. (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
      • 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.
    Synonyms
    • (keep within a structure or container): store
    • (admit to residence): accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up
    • (contain or enclose mechanical parts): enclose
    Derived terms
    Translations

    Etymology 3

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

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: hous, IPA(key): /haʊs/

    Noun

    house (uncountable)

    2. (music) House music.
    Descendants
    Translations

    Chinese

    Etymology

    From English house.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    house

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

    Czech

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ˈɦou̯sɛ]

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    house n

    1. gosling
    Declension

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    house m inan

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

    Further reading

    • “house”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
    • “house”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
    • “house”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

    Dutch

    Etymology

    From English house. Doublet of huis and osso.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    house m (uncountable)

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

    Finnish

    Etymology

    From English house.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈhɑu̯s/, [ˈhɑ̝u̯s̠]
    • Rhymes: -ɑus
    • Hyphenation(key): hou‧se

    Noun

    house (uncountable)

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

    Declension

    Further reading

    • “house”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

    French

    Pronunciation

    • (aspirated h) IPA(key): /aws/

    Noun

    house f (uncountable)

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

    Anagrams

    • houes, houés

    Hungarian

    Etymology

    From English house.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ˈhɒuz]
    • Hyphenation: house
    • Rhymes: -uz

    Noun

    house (plural house-ok)

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

    Declension

    Derived terms

    • house-parti
    • house-zene

    References

    Middle English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    house

    1. Alternative form of hous

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    house

    1. Alternative form of housen

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Etymology

    From English house, house music. Doublet of hus.

    Noun

    house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)

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

    Synonyms

    • housemusikk

    References

    • “house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

    Norwegian Nynorsk

    Etymology

    From English house. Doublet of hus.

    Noun

    house m

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

    Polish

    Etymology

    Pseudo-anglicism, derived from house music.

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

    house m inan

    1. house music, house (genre of music)

    Declension

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    • house in Polish dictionaries at PWN

    Portuguese

    Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from English house.

    Noun

    house m (uncountable)

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

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from English house.

    Noun

    house m (uncountable)

    1. house music

    Declension

    Spanish

    Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from English house music.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈxaus/ [ˈxau̯s]
    • Rhymes: -aus

    Noun

    house m (uncountable)

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

    Usage notes

    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

    • “house”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

    Swedish

    Etymology

    From English house music.

    Noun

    house c

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

    Declension

    Synonyms

    • housemusik, house-musik

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