# house
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą ), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”).
See also 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.
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: /haʊs/
* (Canada, Virginia, Scotland) IPA: /hʌʊs/
* (Geordie) IPA: /huːs/
* (Ireland) IPA: /hæʊs/, /haʊs/
** (Local Dublin) IPA: /hæʊs/, /hɛʊs/
** (Ulster) IPA: /hɐʏs/, /hɛʉs/
** (Munster) IPA: /hɐʊs/, /hʌʊs/
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* Rhymes: -aʊs

#### Noun

house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)
* A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. [from 9th c.]
    This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
** 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them, […].
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
** (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
* A container; a thing which houses another.
** 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes‎, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 25:The purposes of food are to promote growth, to supply force and heat, and to furnish material to repair the waste which is constantly taking place in the body. Every breath, every thought, every motion, wears out some portion of the delicate and wonderful house in which we live.
* (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
** 2007 November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, in Newsweek:Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.
* 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
* The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:2:one that feared God with all his house
* A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
    The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
    On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.
** A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]
    A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
*** 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
** 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.]
    One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
    The house always wins.
*** 1964, “Northwest Ohio Quarterly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 36, page 185:The farce comedy which followed, When We're Married by Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation. The production filled the house.
*** 1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 9:Frazier and Gary worked for me for free — for six months — they didn't take any money from the house. They worked for tips.
** (historical) A workhouse.
*** 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners, volume 29, page 169:To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work.
* The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
    After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
** 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 2, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
* (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]
    The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.
* A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]
    A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
* (figurative) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
** 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.
** 1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […].
* A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]
    I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.
* An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
* (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
** 1971, Sir Keith Vivian Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, The Folio Society, published 2012, →ISBN, page 313:Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.
* (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
* (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
* (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
* Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
* (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
    As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.
* (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.

##### Synonyms

* (establishment): shop
* (company or organisation): shop

##### Hypernyms

* building
* dwelling, residence

##### Hyponyms

* alehouse
* auction house
* backhouse
* basket house
* birdhouse
* boathouse
* boghouse
* bog-house
* chapter house
* coffee house
* common house
* cophouse
* country house
* doghouse
* doll's house
* doss-house
* dosshouse
* dreamhouse
* dream house
* flophouse
* flop-house
* frame house
* full house
* glasshouse
* God's house
* Government House
* Greek house
* greenhouse
* grow house
* guest-house
* guesthouse
* guest house
* halfway house
* haunted house
* house of assembly
* House of Commons
* house of correction
* house of detention
* house of God
* house of ill fame
* house of ill repute
* House of Lords
* house of office
* house of worship
* Houses of Parliament
* icehouse
* jakeshouse
* lighthouse
* little house
* longhouse
* long-house
* long house
* lower house
* meeting-house
* meeting house
* meetinghouse
* move house
* outhouse
* play house
* play-house
* playhouse
* poorhouse
* prisonhouse
* privy house
* public house
* publishing house
* pump house
* pumphouse
* royal house
* safehouse
* schoolhouse
* school house
* scouthouse
* shithouse
* shophouse
* siegehouse
* springhouse
* storehouse
* tea house
* tiny house
* town house
* toy house
* tribal house
* upper house
* warehouse
* wartime house
* weather house
* Wendy house
* White House
* whorehouse

##### Derived terms

* acceptance house
* accepting house
* accommodation house
* acid house
* action house
* a house divided against itself cannot stand
* a house is not a home
* airhouse
* ale-house
* alehouse
* alms-house
* almshouse
* ambient house
* animal house
* apartment house
* Archie Bunker house
* armshouse
* art-house
* art house
* audit house
* automated clearing house
* baby-house
* back-house
* back house
* backhouse
* back of house
* baghouse
* bakehouse
* balti house
* Baltimore house
* barrelhouse
* basket-house
* bath-house
* bathhouse
* bat house
* bawdy house
* bawdy-house
* bawdy-house bottle
* beach house
* beachhouse
* beefhouse
* beef-house
* beef house
* beehouse
* beerhouse
* bellhouse
* bet the house
* big as a house
* bighouse
* big house
* big room house
* birdhouse
* birthhouse
* black-house
* black house spider
* blockhouse
* bloodhouse
* blowing house
* boarding house
* boarding-house
* boathouse
* boghouse
* boilerhouse
* boiling-house
* bonehouse
* bone-house wasp
* booby house
* bookhouse
* booley house
* boom house
* boom-house
* boomhouse
* bottom the house
* bounce house
* bouncy house
* box house
* brewhouse
* brick house
* bring down the house
* bring the house down
* broilerhouse
* broiler house
* brothel-house
* brothel house
* bughouse
* bunkhouse
* burning house
* cadet house
* cakehouse
* call house
* can house
* canhouse
* card-house
* cardhouse
* card house
* carehouse
* car-house
* carhouse
* Carlton House desk
* carriage house
* carthouse
* cat-house
* cat house
* cathouse
* Cecil house
* ceilidh house
* cellhouse
* chapter-house
* chargehouse
* charnel house
* charnel-house
* charterhouse
* chattel house
* chicken house, chickenhouse
* chookhouse
* chop house
* chophouse
* churchhouse
* chute house
* cider house
* clean house
* clearing house
* clubhouse
* coach house
* coalhouse
* cobhouse
* coffeehouse
* coffee-house
* cohouse
* coldhouse
* common house gecko
* common house martin
* compliments of the house
* compting house
* conditioning house
* congee house
* conjee house
* consoo-house
* content house
* cook-house
* cookhouse
* coolhouse
* corn house
* cothouse
* council house
* counting house
* counting-house
* countinghouse
* country-house
* courthouse
* court-house
* couture house
* cowhouse
* crack house
* crackhouse
* craphouse
* crazyhouse
* cribhouse
* crimping house
* Cross Houses
* cubby house
* culverhouse
* curry house
* Custom House
* custom house, customhouse
* customs house
* customshouse
* dairyhouse
* deaconess-house
* dead house
* deadhouse
* death house
* deckhouse
* deep house
* dehouse
* detached house
* dice house
* dishouse
* disorderly house
* diva house
* dog house
* doghouse
* dollhouse
* dope house
* dosshouse
* doss house
* double house
* doubthouse
* dovehouse
* down the house
* drafthouse
* draft house
* draught house
* draught-house
* dress the house
* drug house
* dual house
* dwellinghouse
* dwelling house
* dwelling-house
* dyehouse
* dye-house
* earthhouse
* eating house
* eat someone out of house and home
* eco-house
* engine house
* Eurohouse
* fancy house
* farm-house
* farm house
* farmhouse
* fashion house
* fat as a house
* Fence Houses
* Fencehouses
* fern house
* ferryhouse
* field house
* fieldhouse
* firehouse
* fire house
* fish-house
* fish house
* fishhouse
* Five Houses
* flash house
* flathouse
* flophouse
* folk house
* forcing house
* forehouse
* forever house
* four door house
* fowlhouse
* fowl-house
* frater house
* frater-house
* frat house
* free house
* front of house
* front-of-house
* front-of-house curtain
* front of the house
* fuckhouse
* fund house
* funhouse
* fun house
* future house
* gabberhouse
* gambling house
* gaming house
* garden house
* gashouse
* gas-house egg
* gate house
* gatehouse
* get one's house in order
* get on like a house on fire
* ghetto house
* ghost house
* giant house spider
* gig-house
* gig house
* gighouse
* gillhouse
* gingerbread house
* ginhouse
* glasshouse
* glebe-house
* goathouse
* gong-house
* good house
* go to the goat's house for wool
* great house
* greenhouse
* grindhouse
* groghouse
* grubhouse
* guardhouse
* guesthouse
* gunhouse
* hall house
* handbag house
* hash house
* hashhouse
* head house
* headhouse
* hellhouse
* hell house
* hen house
* hen-house
* henhouse
* hice
* Hilton House
* hip house
* hizzle
* hoard-house
* hoghouse
* honey house
* hoop house
* hothouse
* hot-house
* housage
* housane
* house arrest
* house-arrest
* houseback
* house ball
* house band
* house-barn
* house barn
* housebarn
* houseblessing
* houseblock
* houseboat
* housebody
* houseboi
* house-bote
* housebote
* housebound
* houseboy
* house-boy
* house boy
* house brand
* housebreak
* housebreaker
* house-breaker
* house breaker
* housebreaking
* housebroken
* house-broken
* housebuilder
* housebuilding
* housebuyer
* housebuying
* house-call
* house call
* housecar
* housecare
* housecarl
* housecat
* house cat
* house centipede
* house church
* houseclean
* housecleaner
* housecleaning
* housecloth
* house-coat
* housecoat
* house-commune
* house cooling party
* housecraft
* house cricket
* house curtain
* house-detective
* house detective
* house dick
* house divided
* house dog
* house door
* house-door
* housedress
* housefather
* housefellow
* house finch
* housefire
* house-flag
* house flag
* house flea
* house floor
* housefly
* housefolk
* house frau
* housefrock
* housefront
* houseful
* housefurnishing
* house gecko
* housegirl
* housegod
* house-green
* houseguest
* house guest
* househead
* house-heating
* househelp
* house hermit
* household
* householder
* househubby
* house-hunt
* house-hunter
* househunter
* house-hunting
* househusband
* house husband
* house in Virginia
* housekeeper
* house keeper
* house-keeper
* housekeeping
* housekey
* house lamb
* house leader
* houseleader
* houseleek
* house left
* houseless
* houselet
* houselight
* house lights
* house-like
* houselike
* houseline
* houseling
* house lizard
* housemade
* house maid
* house-maid
* housemaid
* housemaiden
* housemaker
* housemaking
* houseman
* house manager
* house martin
* house master
* housemaster
* housemate
* houseminder
* housemistress
* house money
* house moss
* housemother
* house mouse
* house mover
* house music
* house negro
* house nigga
* house nigger
* house number
* house of accommodation
* house of assignation
* House of Burgesses
* house of call
* house of cards
* house of commons
* house of ease
* house of easement
* house officer
* house of horrors
* house of mirrors
* house of prayer
* house of refuge
* house of tolerance
* house organ
* houseowner
* house painter
* housepainter
* housepainting
* housepants
* houseparent
* house party
* houseperson
* housepet
* house phone
* housephone
* housepig
* houseplant
* house plant
* house-plunder
* house plunder
* house points
* house poor
* housepost
* housepride
* house proud
* houseproud
* house-proud
* houser
* houseraising
* house rat
* house right
* house-roof
* houseroom
* house rule
* house-search
* houseshare
* houseshoe
* house show
* house shrew
* house sit
* house-sit
* house sitter
* house-sitter
* houseslave
* house slave
* house slipper
* house-slipper
* housesmith
* house society
* house sparrow
* house spider
* housespouse
* house style
* house-to-house
* housetop
* house-top
* house top
* house trailer
* housetrain
* house-train
* house train
* house-trained
* housetruck
* house-wall
* house wall
* houseward
* housewards
* houseware
* housewarmer
* house-warming
* housewarming
* house warming
* housewear
* housewide
* house-wife
* housewife
* house wine
* housewoman
* housework
* houseworker
* housewrap
* housewrecker
* house wren
* housewright
* housey
* housey-housey
* housie
* housing
* housy-housy
* husband
* hush house
* hussif
* hussy
* husting
* ice house
* icehouse
* ice-house
* in-house
* in house
* insect house
* interhouse
* in the house
* iron house
* Italo house
* it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
* it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home
* it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
* jailhouse
* jakes house
* jakeshouse
* jakes-house
* jewelhouse
* Jew's house
* jobbing house
* johnny house
* jook house
* joss house
* joy house
* juke house
* keekwilee-house
* keep house
* kill house
* kutcha house
* laithe-house
* laithe house
* lakehouse
* Lake House
* laneway house
* LAN house
* lazar house
* lazar-house
* leaping house
* leaping-house
* lighthouse
* light house
* like a house afire
* limehouse
* lit-house
* lockhouse
* lockup house
* lodge-house
* lodgehouse
* lodge house
* lodging house
* lodging-house
* loghouse
* Lombard house
* lower house
* madhouse
* main house
* malthouse, malt house
* managed house
* manor house
* market-house
* masthouse
* meat house
* meeting-house
* meeting house
* meetinghouse
* member of lower house
* member of upper house
* microhouse
* milkhouse
* milk house
* milk-house
* millhouse
* minster house
* model house
* Mollie house
* mollie-house
* mollie house
* molly-house
* Molly house
* molly house
* monkey-house
* motherhouse
* move house
* movie-house
* movie house
* mudhouse
* mughouse
* multihouse
* music house
* nail house
* narrow house
* neat-house
* neathouse
* necessary house
* negro-house
* Newhouse
* news-house
* night house
* night-house
* northern house martin
* nut full house
* nut-house
* nut house
* nuthouse
* oast house
* odorous house ant
* office-house
* one's house in order
* on the house
* open house
* opera house
* opera house trap
* orchard house
* orehouse
* out-house
* outhouse
* out of house and home
* overhouse
* oyster house
* packhouse
* packinghouse
* palmhouse
* panel house
* panhouse
* paper house
* paper the house
* parish house
* parlor house
* parrothouse
* passage house
* passage-house
* peelhouse
* peg house
* pension house
* penthouse
* people's house
* pesthouse
* petty-house
* picket house
* picket-house
* Picts' house
* Pict's house
* picture house
* pie house
* pigeonhouse
* pilothouse
* pisshouse
* pithouse
* plant-house
* playhouse
* play with house money
* pleasure house
* pool house
* poolhouse
* poor house
* poorhouse
* porterhouse
* porthouse
* post-house
* post house
* posthouse
* posting house
* pot-house
* poultryhouse
* powerhouse
* printing-house
* printing house
* prisonhouse
* prison house
* private-wire house
* privy-house
* progressive house
* proof house
* public-house
* pumphouse
* punch house
* put one's house in order
* raghouse
* ranchhouse
* rasp-house
* rat house
* receiving house
* rehouse
* renthouse
* rest house
* resthouse
* roadhouse
* rock house
* rock the house
* rooming house
* rope-house
* rough-house
* rough house
* round house
* roundhouse
* rowhouse
* row house
* run of house
* safe house
* safehouse
* schoolhouse
* school-house
* section-house
* seedhouse
* senate-house
* set one's house in order
* settlement house
* shadehouse
* sharehouse
* share house
* shaving house
* shithouse
* shit house
* shoothouse
* shophouse
* shotgun house
* shouse
* showhouse
* sickhouse
* siege house
* siegehouse
* siege-house
* skeleton in the house
* slaughterhouse
* smallest room in the house
* smokehouse
* snow house
* sober house
* sober living house
* society house
* software house
* sole house
* spicehouse
* spinning house
* spirit house
* spitalhouse
* spite house
* split the house
* sponging-house
* sponging house
* spookhouse
* sporting house
* spring house
* springhouse
* spunging-house
* stagehouse
* starter house
* statehouse
* state house
* station-house
* stationhouse
* station house
* steakhouse
* steak house
* steeplehouse
* Stenhouse
* stillhouse
* stilt house
* stinkhouse
* Stonehouse
* store-house
* storehouse
* stormhouse
* stovehouse
* stroke house
* study house
* sugar-house
* sugar house
* sugarhouse
* summer-house
* summerhouse
* summer house
* Sunday house
* superhouse
* sweathouse
* tacklehouse
* tackle-house
* tackle house
* take it to the house
* tan house
* tanhouse
* taphouse
* teahouse
* tech house
* telescope house
* tenement house
* terraced house
* the call is coming from inside the house
* the house
* the house always wins
* the house down
* throw stones in a glass house
* tied house
* tiring-house
* tollhouse
* toolhouse
* to the house
* tower house
* townhouse
* toyhouse
* tract house
* transition house
* trap house
* trap-house
* traphouse
* treasure house
* treehouse
* tree house
* tropical house
* trugging-house
* try house
* unhouse
* unhoused
* up and down house
* use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house
* victualling house
* wafflehouse
* waffle house
* warehouse
* warmhouse
* washhouse, wash house
* watch house
* watchhouse
* waterhouse
* watering house
* weighhouse
* weigh house
* wellhouse
* well-house
* wheelhouse
* wheel house
* wheel-house
* whorehouse
* whore house
* winterhouse
* wirehouse
* witch house
* woodhouse
* woolhouse
* work house
* wring-house

##### Descendants

* Chinese Pidgin English: houso
* Nigerian Pidgin: haus
* Tok Pisin: haus
* Sranan Tongo: oso
** → Dutch: osso
* → Cantonese: house (hau$^1$ si$^2$)
* → Japanese: ハウス (hausu)

##### Further reading

* house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* house (astrology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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### 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: /haʊz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz
* Homophone: how's

#### Verb

house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)
* (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
    The car is housed in the garage.
** 1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: Or The Gard’ners Almanac; […] [November.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 29:Houſe your choiceſt Carnations, or rather ſet them under a Pent-houſe againſt a South-wall, ſo as a covering being thrown over them to preſerve them in extremity of weather, they may yet enjoy the freer air at all other times.
** 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646:Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
* (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
** c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The First Booke] Chapter 1”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 41, recto:Palladius wished him [...] to house all the Helots.
* To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
** c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:You shall not house with me.
** 1996 October 5, Robert Whymant, “Tokyo tries to calm islands row”, in The Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, column 2:The federation yesterday vowed to occupy Uotsuri, one of the islands, and build a permanent structure to house six members.
* (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
** 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Where Saturn houses.
* (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
* (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
    The joists were housed into the side walls, rather than being hung from them.
* (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
** c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:Euen now we hous'd him in the Abbey heere
* (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
** 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre
* (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
    to house the upper spars
* (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

* housable
* unhousable

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

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

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: hous, IPA: /haʊs/

#### Noun

house (uncountable)
* (music) House music.
** 1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 73:[…] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.
** 2001 March, Philip Sherburne, “Exos, Strength [album review]”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 91, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, →ISSN, page 66:And while hard, minimal techno has become increasingly influenced by house and Oval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school on Strength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno purists Surgeon and Oliver Ho.
** 2006, Mark Jonathan Butler, Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 45:The first genre of American dance music to become popular in the United Kingdom was Chicago house. Although music from Detroit was soon imported as well, it was often treated as subcategory of house, and for many years the most common English term for electronic dance music in general was "house" or "acid house". […] During the formative years of techno and house, the musicians involved interacted in various ways.

##### Descendants

* → Belarusian: гаўс (haŭs)
* → Bulgarian: хаус (haus)
* → Catalan: house
* →⇒ Chinese: 浩室音樂 / 浩室音乐 (hàoshì yīnyuè)
* → Czech: house
* → Danish: house
* → Dutch: house
* → Esperanto: haŭzo
* → Estonian: house
* → Finnish: house
* → French: house
* → Galician: house
* → Georgian: ჰაუსი (hausi)
* → German: House
* → Greek: χάουζ (cháouz)
* → Hungarian: house
* → Icelandic: house
* → Indonesian: house
* → Italian: house
* → Japanese: ハウス (hausu)
* → Korean: 하우스 (hauseu)
* → Latvian: hauss
* → Lithuanian: house
* → Lombard: house
* → Norwegian Bokmål: house
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: house
* → Occitan: house
* → Polish: house
* → Portuguese: house
* → Quechua: house
* → Romanian: house
* → Russian: ха́ус (xáus)
* → Serbo-Croatian: хауз, house
* → Slovak: house
* → Slovene: house
* → Spanish: house
* → Swedish: house
* → Turkish: house
* → Ukrainian: хауз (xauz)
* → Welsh: House
* → West Frisian: house

##### Translations
## Chinese
### Etymology

From English house.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): hau$^1$ si$^2$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hau$^1$ si$^2$
*** Yale: hāu sí
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hau$^1$ si$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: heo$^1$ xi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

### Noun

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

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦou̯sɛ]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

house n
* gosling

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

house m inan
* 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), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Etymology

From English house. Doublet of huis and osso.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɦɑu̯s/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: house
* Rhymes: -ɑu̯s

### Noun

house m (uncountable)
* house music, house (a genre of music)
    Synonym: housemuziek

#### Derived terms

* gabberhouse
* smurfenhouse

## Finnish
### Etymology

From English house.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɑu̯s/, [ˈhɑ̝u̯s̠]
* Rhymes: -ɑus
* Hyphenation: hou‧se

### Noun

house (uncountable)
* (music) house music, house (a genre of music)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of house (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
houseni
accusative
nom.
houseni
gen.
houseni
genitive
houseni
partitive
houseani
inessive
housessani
elative
housestani
illative
houseeni
adessive
housellani
ablative
houseltani
allative
houselleni
essive
housenani
translative
housekseni
abessive
housettani
instructive
comitative
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
housesi
accusative
nom.
housesi
gen.
housesi
genitive
housesi
partitive
houseasi
inessive
housessasi
elative
housestasi
illative
houseesi
adessive
housellasi
ablative
houseltasi
allative
housellesi
essive
housenasi
translative
houseksesi
abessive
housettasi
instructive
comitative
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
housemme
accusative
nom.
housemme
gen.
housemme
genitive
housemme
partitive
houseamme
inessive
housessamme
elative
housestamme
illative
houseemme
adessive
housellamme
ablative
houseltamme
allative
housellemme
essive
housenamme
translative
houseksemme
abessive
housettamme
instructive
comitative
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
housenne
accusative
nom.
housenne
gen.
housenne
genitive
housenne
partitive
houseanne
inessive
housessanne
elative
housestanne
illative
houseenne
adessive
housellanne
ablative
houseltanne
allative
housellenne
essive
housenanne
translative
houseksenne
abessive
housettanne
instructive
comitative
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
housensa
accusative
nom.
housensa
gen.
housensa
genitive
housensa
partitive
houseaan houseansa
inessive
housessaan housessansa
elative
housestaan housestansa
illative
houseensa
adessive
housellaan housellansa
ablative
houseltaan houseltansa
allative
houselleen housellensa
essive
housenaan housenansa
translative
housekseen houseksensa
abessive
housettaan housettansa
instructive
comitative

### Further reading

* “house”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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

* IPA: /aws/

### Noun

house f (uncountable)
* house music, house (a genre of music)
    Synonym: house music

### Anagrams

* houes, houés

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From English house.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhɒuz]
* Hyphenation: house
* Rhymes: -uz

### Noun

house (plural house-ok)
* (music) house music, house (a type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)

#### Derived terms

* house-parti
* house-zene

### References

* ↑ Laczkó, Krisztina with Attila Mártonfi (2006) Helyesírás [Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

house
* Alternative form of hous

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

house
* Alternative form of housen

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English house, house music. Doublet of hus.

### Noun

house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)
* 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
* house music, house (a genre of music)

## Polish
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from house music.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxaws/
* Rhymes: -aws
* Syllabification: house

### Noun

house m inan
* house music, house (genre of music)

#### Derived terms

* house'owy
* housowy

### Further reading

* house in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English house.

### Noun

house m (uncountable)
* house music, house (a genre of music)
    Synonym: música house

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English house.

### Noun

house m (uncountable)
* house music

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English house music.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxaus/ [ˈxau̯s]
* Rhymes: -aus

### Noun

house m (uncountable)
* 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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

From English house music.

### Noun

house c
* house music, house (a genre of music)

#### Synonyms

* housemusik, house-musik