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      house
      noun
      A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
      (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
      A container; a thing which houses another.
      (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
      A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
      The people who live in a house; a household.
      A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
      A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
      A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
      The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
      (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
      A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
      (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
      A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
      An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
      (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
      (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
      (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
      Lotto; bingo.
      (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
      (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
      (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.
      (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
      (music) House music.
      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, or where there is no other chamber (unicameral).
      A placename:
      A village in Quay County, New Mexico, United States.
      An unincorporated community in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.
      A topographic surname from Middle English for someone residing in a house (as opposed to a hut) or in a religious house.
      (US politics, as "the House") Ellipsis of House of Representatives. [The lower house in the bicameral legislatures of several countries; also some singular legislative bodies in unicameral systems.]
      (politics, Westminsterian parliamentary systems) Ellipsis of House of Commons. [(UK politics) The lower house of the British Parliament.]
      (politics) A particular chamber of political representation [The lower house in the bicameral legislatures of several countries; also some singular legislative bodies in unicameral systems.]
      (politics) Ellipsis of House of Parliament. [A legislative body in a government with a parliamentary system of government.]
      (historical) A workhouse.
      (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
      (Oxford University slang, dated) Christ Church, Oxford.
      verb
      (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
      (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
      To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
      (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
      (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
      (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
      (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
      (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
      (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
      (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
      Synonyms for house
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