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Definition house

Etymology 1

From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English h?s (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-Germanic *h?s? (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, Low German Huus, German Haus, Danish hus, Norwegian Bokmål hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kew- (“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.

Noun

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.]
2. The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]
3. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
   1. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]
   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.]
4. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
5. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]
6. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]
7. (figuratively) a place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
8. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]
9. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
10. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
11. (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
12. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
13. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
14. Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
15. (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
16. (US, dialectal) A small stand of trees in a swamp.

Etymology 2

From Middle English housen, from Old English h?sian, from Proto-Germanic *h?s?n? (“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”).

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/harbour.
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. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
7. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
8. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

Etymology 3

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

Noun

house (uncountable)

1. (music) House music.

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