Definition of (house) in English English dictionary
- Clarence House
- a royal home in London, now the official residence of Prince Charles
- Clarence House
- the office of Prince Charles
Clarence House has issued a joint statement with the Ministry of Defence confirming that Prince Harry will be deployed to Iraq later this year.
- Greek house
- A building in which the members of a fraternity or sorority reside or meet, especially one located on or near the campus of a college or university
About 50 students live in the average Greek house.
- House
- The House of Representatives, "the House"
- House
- A topographic surname for someone residing in a house (as opposed to a hut) or in a religious house
- House
- More generally, a shortened name for any chamber of a legislature that is named "House of...", especially where the other chamber(s) are not so named (as in Australia or Canada), or where there is no other chamber (as in New Zealand)
- House of Commons
- The lower house of the UK and Canadian Houses of Parliament
Reckoning from 1802 till November 15, 1837, there were thirteen Houses of Commons.
- House of Keys
- The lower house of the Tynwald, the Isle of Man parliament
- House of Lords
- The upper chamber of the UK Houses of Parliament
- House of Parliament
- A legislative body in a government with a parliamentary system of government
- House of Representatives
- The lower house in the bicameral legislatures of several countries
- Parker House roll
- A bread roll made by flattening the centre of a ball of dough so that it becomes an oval shape and then folding the oval in half
- Parliament House
- The building in which a National (or State) Parliament sits
- Sydney Opera House
- A multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Wendy house
- A toy house in which children can play
- White House
- The official home and workplace of the President of the United States of America
- White House
- The US presidency and its administration
The White House announced its support for the new law.
- a house is not a home
- A home is not merely a building but requires inhabitants and a friendly atmosphere
- acid house
- A style of music from the early rave scene in the UK
- art house
- A cinema that shows art films and foreign films which are not widely distributed
Practically nothing has yet been reported in detail about audiences who attend the art house—a relatively new and growing institution on the American cinematic scene.
- art house
- A building or gallery in which works of art are collected, displayed, and offered for sale
Hitler had collected most of the paintings from a Jewish-owned art house—Goudstikker of Amsterdam.
- art-house
- Of or pertaining to an art house or art houses
Czech movies may soon be as much a staple on the art-house circuit as the effervescent outpourings of France's New Wave.
- automated clearing house
- A nationwide electronic funds transfer system that provides for inter-bank clearing of electronic payments, such as credit card transactions. An ACH transaction is an electronic fund transfer through the Federal Reserve Bank from a checking or savings account
- balti house
- A curry house in which balti food is served
- bawdy-house
- A brothel; a house of prostitution
- bawdy-house bottle
- A very small bottle; short measure being among the many means used by the keepers of those houses, to gain what they call an honest livelihood: indeed this is one of the least reprehensible; the less they give a man of their infernal beverages for his money, the kinder they behave to him. (definition from: The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue)
- big house
- Prison, jail
He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes.
- big house, little house, back house, barn
- A style of architecture in New England, also called connected farm
- black-house
- A traditional house, in some parts of Scotland, having dry stone walls and a turf roof
- boarding house
- A private house in which paying residents are provided with accomodation and meals
- boarding house
- A boarding school building where boarders live during term time
- bottom the house
- To clean a house from top to bottom; to clean a house extremely thoroughly
- bounce house
- bouncy castle
- bring down the house
- To garner enthusiastic or wild applause
- car-house
- A garage or a building for a car. Typically separate from a house
- carriage house
- A building in which a horse and carriage is stored, separate from the house
- cat house
- a brothel
George shook himself. He said woodenly, If I was alone I could live so easy. His voice was monotonous, had no emphasis. I could get a job an' not have no mess. He stopped. Go on, said Lennie. An' when the enda the month come- An' when the end of the month came I could take my fifty bucks an' go to a... cat house... John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. Chapter 6.
- chapter house
- A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place
In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life.
- chapter house
- A building used by a sorority or fraternity as a residence or meeting place
At the house-party herein represented a murder is done, and the locale of the deed is a chapter house on the pleasant campus at Williamston, Mass.
- chapter-house
- Alternative spelling of chapter house
- charnel house
- a vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored
- cider house
- A public house that sells a selection of draught ciders rather than beer
- clean house
- To reform by removing undesirable personnel and procedures
- clean house
- To clean the interior of a house
- clearing house
- A repository structure, physical or virtual, that collects, stores, and disseminates information, metadata, and data
- clearing house
- A central point where clearing banks exchange checks etc and settle accounts
- corn house
- A small shed-like structure usually adjacent to a barn. Its use is mainly for storage of grain or feed. On occasion it may be used for isolation of unruly or lame farm animals
- country house
- A weekend and holiday residence outside of the city; a second home
- crack house
- A residential building where crack cocaine is manufactured, sold, or consumed
A woman who ran a crack house in Nashua has become the first to be convicted in New Hampshire under a law criminalizing the use of a house or apartment to violate federal drug laws.
- curry house
- an Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi restaurant
- custom house
- An official building, in a port, where customs are collected and shipping is cleared for entry and exit
- deaconess-house
- A house inhabited or operated by deaconesses, providing basic medical attention, care for the poor and sick etc
The first of the Conferences was held in 1861, just twenty-five years after the founding of the first deaconess house at Kaiserwerth.
- death house
- A holding area in a prison for condemned prisoners in the time immediately prior to execution
- death house
- Syn. death row
- detached house
- A free-standing, single-family dwelling unit, that does not share a common wall with any other structure
- doll's house
- A miniature house used by children as a toy for recreating domestic settings
- doss-house
- A place where homeless people can sleep for the night. Provided either by the local council, or by a charity organisation
- eat someone out of house and home
- To consume such a portion of one's store of food that little is left for the owner
or I will ride thee o' nights like the mare.
- eco-house
- A house that is overtly environmentally friendly
Another initiative was support for the Indonesian Ministry of Environment on eco-house design, with the construction of a pilot eco-house.
- fashion house
- a company employed in fashion design; a couturier
- folk house
- A folk house is a term for the common houses in America. They are usually noted for the design in the front and interior of the house. These houses are usually owned by the averaged payed Americans
- four door house
- A house with four doors, specifically a house with a garage, a garage door that connects to the home, a front door, and a back door
- frame house
- A house constructed on a light wooden framework
- frat house
- A building in which the members of a fraternity reside or meet, especially one located on or near the campus of a college or university
She wrote some awfully slushy letters to Phil Bowen, and he read them aloud at the frat house one night.
- free house
- A public house that is not owned or managed by a brewery company, and can therefore stock a range of beers from several producers
- front of house
- The part of a restaurant, theatre, etc. presented to the public
- front of the house
- The portion of the house closer to the hog line
- full house
- In the card game of poker, a hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair
- full house
- A situation in which the maximum capacity of a place is filled with people
- fun house
- An environment that (unintentionally) resembles a fun house
- fun house
- funhouse
- fun house
- A carnival or amusement park attraction through which customers ramble to see unexpected clowns, distortion mirrors, ramps, slides, stairs, rotating barrel slides, etc
- gate house
- A structure located at an entrance to a large property, especially a dwelling
- get on like a house on fire
- To immediately start a good relationship with someone
Those two met last Saturday at the party, and because they were both into juggling they get on like a house on fire.
- ghetto house
- a class of house music from Chicago
- giant house spider
- a large kind of house spider- Tegenaria duellica
- glebe-house
- A rectory, built for the parish priest, vicar, pastor, or rector, usually at church expense
After mature consideration he made up his mind that the parson should be his ambassador. . . . e mounted his nag, and rode off to Ballindine glebe. The glebe-house was about a couple of miles from Kelly's Court, and it was about half-past four when Lord Ballindine got there.
- good house
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Here is a very creditable good house just by, where thou may'st find good entertainment for thyself and thy cattle till morning..
- halfway house
- A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society
- hash house
- A cheap restaurant
- haunted house
- A Halloween amusement attraction in which a building or series of rooms is decorated to frighten the people who pass through the attraction
- haunted house
- A house that is believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences or paranormal phenomena
- house
- 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.
- house
- To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour
- house
- A protective structure on the deck of a ship
A pilot took charge of the wheel house until the ship was moored.
- house
- A dynasty, a familial descendance, for example, a royal House
The current Queen is from the House of Windsor.
- house
- A deliberative assembly forming a component of a legislature, or, more rarely, the room or building in which such an assembly normally meets
- house
- A company or organisation
A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
- house
- To contain or cover mechanical parts
- house
- An aggregate of characteristics of a house
- house
- A structure serving as an abode of human beings
This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
- house
- A structure to protect or store something or someone
The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
- house
- An establishment, whether actual, as a pub, or virtual, as a website
- house
- The mode of living as if in a house
They set up house in a posh apartment.
- house
- A theatre building, or the audience for a live theatrical or similar performance
Is there a doctor in the house?.
- house
- The three concentric circles where points are scored on the ice
- house
- To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses
- house
- House music
- house
- A complete set of numbers in bingo
- house
- To keep within a structure or container
The car is housed in the garage.
- house
- The usual place to find an object or an animal
The photo was put in its little house.
- house
- An early or alternative name for the game bingo
- house
- One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart
- house arrest
- The situation where a person is confined, by the authorities, to his or her residence, possibly with travel allowed but restricted. Used as a lenient alternative to prison time
- house boy
- A male domestic servant; variant form of houseboy
- house call
- A visit by a repair person or other customer service worker to a customer's home
- house call
- A visit by a medical professional, especially a physician, to examine a patient in his or her home
- house cat
- Felis silvestris forma catus
- house cat
- a domestic cat, a pet cat, Felis silvestris catus, as opposed to bigger and wild living Felidae
- house cats
- plural form of house cat
- house cooling party
- A party to celebrate when a person decides to leave a house or flat, and sometimes to help prepare the space for the incoming residents
- house cricket
- a cricket of the species Acheta domestica
- house crickets
- plural form of house cricket
- house detective
- A person employed by a privately owned establishment, such as a hotel or large retail store, with the job of preventing wrongdoing and apprehending violators of laws or other regulations
I am usually uncomfortable in such five-star, five-diamond places. . . . I'm afraid I'll break something. Or be found out, collared by the house detective as an interloper unworthy of the surroundings.
- house dick
- A hotel detective
- house dicks
- plural form of house dick
- house husband
- A husband who remains in the homestead as housekeeper, as opposed to a housewife
- house husbands
- plural form of house husband
- house martin
- A migratory passerine bird of the swallow family, Delichon urbicum
- house martins
- plural form of house martin
- house master
- A teacher in charge of a sports house at a school
- house master
- A teacher in charge of a boarding house at a boarding school
- house mice
- plural form of house mouse
- house mouse
- The universally common mouse of the species Mus musculus
- house music
- A particular type of electronic dance music
- house music
- Music of this type
- house number
- The single object or multiple objects attached to a building (or an object adjacent to it such as a mailbox or post) to display the street address assigned to that structure
- house number
- The street address numbers painted on a building (or an object such as a mailbox or post near the building), or painted on the curb of the street in front of the building
- house numbers
- plural form of house number
- house of cards
- A structure made by laying cards perpendicularly on top of each other
- house of cards
- A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation
- house of correction
- A residential penitentiary facility, an institution where criminals or wayward people (notably youth) are sent to have their ways 'corrected' trough a penal regime officially intended to reeducate them
- house of ill repute
- A brothel
- house of worship
- A religious edifice; a church, temple, or similar place where believers go to practice their faith
- house organ
- a privately published magazine or newspaper, generally for the employees of a company and visitors
- house organs
- plural form of house organ
- house parties
- plural form of house party
- house party
- A social gathering at someone's house
- house plants
- plural form of house plant
- house points
- Points awarded to members of the houses of grammar schools and public schools for sporting and other achievements
- house points
- "Points" awarded in jest in a domestic environment for doing some task (such as clearing out the garage.)
- house poor
- In financial difficulty because of the excessive cost of owning a house, or because the cost of home ownership forms too high a proportion of household income
- house rat
- An alternative term for the black rat
- house rats
- plural form of house rat
- house rule
- A rule adopted by a particular establishment
There were a couple of strict house rules: no playing on the billiard table, which we had damaged twice; and no talking in bed.
- house rules
- plural form of house rule
- house sitter
- A person who stays in your house to mind it while you are away
- house style
- All the characteristics, conventions and use of colour and language of a company, institution, website etc that serves to make it distinct from others
- house styles
- plural form of house style
- house warming
- A party to celebrate moving into a new home
- house warming
- Presented as a way of welcoming someone to a home into which he or she recently moved
A house warming card.
- house warming
- The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home
- house wine
- A relatively inexpensive wine sold in a restaurant, often by the glass as well as by the bottle or unmarked carafe; both red and white are normally offered
- house wines
- plural form of house wine
- house-call
- Alternative spelling of house call
- house-detective
- Alternative spelling of house detective
- house-proud
- Proud of one's house, its furnishings, or its upkeep
- house-search
- A thorough search of a home or other privately owned real estate as part of an official (notably judicial) investigation
An illegal house-search is both a grave violation of privacy and a potential ground to dismiss all evidence it yielded.
- house-sit
- to live in someone's house and take care of it while they are away
I'm housesitting for my friends while they're on vacation in France.
- house-trained
- Of a pet: trained not to excrete indoors
- house-warming
- Alternative spelling of house warming
- in house
- Belonging to or part of an organization; internal
We like to keep our product and process development in house to help protect our intellectual property rights.
- in house
- Occurring within an establishment, using existing personnel, facilities, and supplies, as opposed to at some external supplier or customer
We should be able to develop that widget in house.
- in-house
- Alternative spelling of in house
- johnny house
- A privy, a pit toilet enclosed within a simple shelter, in North America traditionally made of wood. Usually it is an outbuilding to a habitable structure. Also called john and outhouse
- keep house
- To take care of domestic chores; work as a housekeeper
So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.
- lazar house
- A place to quarantine leprous people
- leaping house
- A brothel
In the late sixteenth century, the word nunnery also came to mean brothel. . . . Around the same time, the synonymous leaping-house also emerged, which anticipated the eighteenth-century terms vaulting-school and pushing-school, all implying vigorous acts of sex.
- leaping-house
- Alternative spelling of leaping house
- managed house
- A public house which is owned by a brewery, or other holding company, and run by a manager rather than a tenant
- manor house
- The main house on a landed estate
- manor house
- The house of the lord of the manor
- meat house
- A place where meat is cured or stored
- move house
- To change one's place of residence
- oast house
- a building containing oasts, used in conjunction with hop harvesting
- office-house
- A building or outhouse on a farm, estate, manor, palace, &c.; used for household work, storage, housing servants, &c; the office of the steward or bailiff on a manor or estate; a house of office
This Pallace ... hath neither outward walles nor gates ... save onely some office houses without.
- on the house
- free, complimentary
This voucher entitles you to a free drink on the house.
- open house
- A casual school event where the school invites parents or guardians to come and tour their child's school, classrooms, and allow them to meet their child's teachers
- open house
- A house which is for sale and is open for inspection or tour by interested parties. Most houses for sale on the market are open on weekends
- opera house
- A theatre, or similar building, primarily used for staging opera
- out of house and home
- In a manner that deprives one of dwelling or some aspect thereof
Many amphibians are being heated out of house and home.
- parish house
- a rectory or vicarage
- play house
- A child's toy domestic dwelling, either for dolls or large enough for the child to enter
- play house
- To act out traditional housekeeping and family roles
Little girls seem to enjoy playing house more than little boys.
- pot-house
- A pub; a tavern
- printing house
- A commercial company dealing in printing
- public house
- An establishment licensed to sell alcoholic beverages to be consumed on or off the premises; they often provide meals and sometimes accommodation
- public-house
- Alternative spelling of public house
- publishing house
- A company that produces books, magazines, brochures and other texts in print or electronic form
- rock the house
- To jam at a concert, get down
Who's ready to rock the house?.
- rooming house
- A house which lets out furnished apartments
- row house
- A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof
The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down.
- safe house
- A secure location, suitable for hiding witnesses, agents or other persons perceived as being in danger
- shotgun house
- A narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s
- software house
- A company that produces software
- split the house
- A strategy of drawing to a different area of the house to prevent your opponent from taking out both stones
- sponging-house
- A place of temporary confinement for debtors, kept by a bailiff, where debtors were sponged of all money they had on themselves, before being transferred to debtor's prison
- state house
- A state (one of the fifty United States) legislature, or government generally, or the building that houses it
- summer house
- A variant spelling of summerhouse
- summer-house
- A variant spelling of summerhouse
- terraced house
- A type of house which shares both sidewalls with the adjacent houses. Typical of Victorian and Edwardian housing in English cities
- tied house
- A public house which is either owned by a brewery, or other holding company, and run by a manager, or rented and run by a tenant, or perhaps contractually tied because of loans from a brewery, which therefore is obliged to purchase a certain percentage of it's stock from said pubco
- tract house
- Any of many houses, of a similar (if not identical) plan and design, built on a tract of land
- treasure house
- A treasury
- treasure house
- A building where valuable things are stored
- tree house
- a tropical residence built in a tree, or on stilts
- tree house
- a recreational structure built among the branches of a tree
- counting-house
- a house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc
- a house divided against itself cannot stand
- (Muhasebe) If the members of a group fight each other, the group will disintegrate. (Often the group under discussion is a family.)
- bring the house down
- 1. (Lit.) Cause a house to collapse. 2. (Fig.) [for a performance or a performer] to excite the audience into making a great clamor of approval
- crack house
- A place, or the surroundings in which a drug dealer (trap star) would use to make their profit
- halfway house
- A halfway house, also called a recovery house or sober house, is a place to allow people to begin the process of reintegration with society, while still providing monitoring and support; this is generally believed to reduce the risk of recidivism or relapse when compared to a release directly into society
- recovery house
- A halfway house, also called a recovery house or sober house, is a place to allow people to begin the process of reintegration with society, while still providing monitoring and support; this is generally believed to reduce the risk of recidivism or relapse when compared to a release directly into society
- sober house
- A halfway house, also called a recovery house or sober house, is a place to allow people to begin the process of reintegration with society, while still providing monitoring and support; this is generally believed to reduce the risk of recidivism or relapse when compared to a release directly into society
- trap house
- A crack house, or the surroundings in which a drug dealer (trap star) would use to make their profit
- house to house
- door to door, residence to residence, home to home
- house to house raid
- entering one house after another and seizing what is inside (police operation)
- house-to-house
- A house-to-house activity involves going to all the houses in an area one after another. Security officers have carried out a number of house-to-house searches. = door-to-door House-to-house is also an adverb. They're going house to house, rounding up the residents. house-to-house inquiries/search/collection etc inquiries etc that are made by visiting each house in a particular area door-to-door
