Definitions for houses

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houses house

Spelling: [noun, adjective hous; verb houz]

IPA: /noun, adjective haʊs; verb haʊz/

Houses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in houses (ehossu).

Definitions for houses

noun

1. a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
2. a household.
3. (often initial capital letter) a family, including ancestors and descendants:
4. a building for any purpose:
5. a theater, concert hall, or auditorium:
6. the audience of a theater or the like.
7. a place of shelter for an animal, bird, etc.
8. the building in which a legislative or official deliberative body meets.
9. (initial capital letter) the body itself, especially of a bicameral legislature:
10. a quorum of such a body.
11. (often initial capital letter) a commercial establishment; business firm:
12. a gambling casino.
13. the management of a commercial establishment or of a gambling casino:
14. an advisory or deliberative group, especially in church or college affairs.
15. a college in an English-type university.
16. a residential hall in a college or school; dormitory.
17. the members or residents of any such residential hall.
18. Informal. a brothel; whorehouse.
19. British. a variety of lotto or bingo played with paper and pencil, especially by soldiers as a gambling game.
20. Also called parish. Curling. the area enclosed by a circle 12 or 14 feet (3.7 or 4.2 meters) in diameter at each end of the rink, having the tee in the center.
21. Nautical. any enclosed shelter above the weather deck of a vessel:
22. Astrology. one of the 12 divisions of the celestial sphere, numbered counterclockwise from the point of the eastern horizon.

Idioms

1. bring down the house, to call forth vigorous applause from an audience; be highly successful:
2. clean house. clean (def 47).
3. dress the house, Theater. to fill a theater with many people admitted on free passes; paper the house. to arrange or space the seating of patrons in such a way as to make an audience appear larger or a theater or nightclub more crowded than it actually is.
4. keep house, to maintain a home; manage a household.
5. like a house on fire / afire, very quickly; with energy or enthusiasm:
6. on the house, as a gift from the management; free:
7. put / set one's house in order, to settle one's affairs. to improve one's behavior or correct one's faults:

adjective

1. of, relating to, or noting a house.
2. for or suitable for a house:
3. of or being a product made by or for a specific retailer and often sold under the store's own label:
4. served by a restaurant as its customary brand:

verb (used with object)

1. to put or receive into a house, dwelling, or living quarters:
2. to give shelter to; harbor; lodge:
3. to provide with a place to work, study, or the like:
4. to provide storage space for; be a receptacle for or repository of:
5. to remove from exposure; put in a safe place.
6. Nautical. to stow securely. to lower (an upper mast) and make secure, as alongside the lower mast. to heave (an anchor) home.
7. Carpentry. to fit the end or edge of (a board or the like) into a notch, hole, or groove. to form (a joint) between two pieces of wood by fitting the end or edge of one into a dado of the other.

verb (used without object)

1. to take shelter; dwell.

Origin of houses

before 900; (noun) Middle English h(o)us, Old English hūs; cognate with Dutch huis, Low German huus, Old Norse hūs, German Haus, Gothic -hūs (in gudhūs temple); (v.) Middle English housen, Ol