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Meaning house meaning

What does house mean?
Definitions in simple English

house

A house is a building that one family lives in. House is a type of music.

house

If you house someone or something, you give them a home. The building houses a research centre and a school. During the storm they were housed in the local school's gym.

house

a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families he has a house on Cape Cod she felt she had to get out of the house contain or cover This box houses the gears provide housing for The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments he worked for a brokerage house an official assembly having legislative powers a bicameral legislature has two houses the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema the house applauded he counted the house the members of a religious community living together play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults the children were playing house aristocratic family line the House of York a building in which something is sheltered or located they had a large carriage house the management of a gambling house or casino the house gets a percentage of every bet (= family, household, home) a social unit living together he moved his family to Virginia It was a good Christian household I waited until the whole house was asleep the teacher asked how many people made up his home a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented the house was full (= sign of the zodiac) (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

Synonyms house synonyms

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Topics house topics

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Conjugation house conjugation

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house · verb

Examples house examples

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Simple sentences

Have you heard that a burglar broke into my neighbor's house?
The fire spread and licked the neighboring house.
Are you happy in your house?
We have made numerous improvements to our house since we bought it.
My house was on fire.
There used to be a big cherry tree at the back of my house.
There is a church near my house.
We would move to a bigger house if we had more money.
Who designed the White House?
In those days, he lived in the house alone.
The house stands by itself.
This old house is made of wood.
This house is very good.
How many cats are there in this house?
If I showed you my house, my neighborhood back then, would you understand where I am from?
After that, I left, but then I realized that I forgot my backpack at their house.
Ah! If I were rich, I'd buy myself a house in Spain.
You did not need to have your house painted.
Your house is three times as large as mine.
Please remove your shoes before entering the house.
A fire broke out near my house.
Although her house is nearby, I seldom see her.
The burglar burst into his house.
A thief broke into the house to steal the money.
His low salary prevents him from buying the house.
Your scheme is like a house built on the sand.
Your house needs repairing.
I wish I could live near your house.
How many rooms are there in your house?
How far is it from your house to the park?

Movie subtitles

Is this your house?
This house is a rich person's house, right?
Is it a hella rich house?
Why'd you piss at stranger's house?
I'll wait by your house.
We don't have much food, but do you want to eat at my house?
This is Yoon's house and our house is over here.
Hey, but our house is this way.
This isn't our house.
Meet my poor mother, buy her pretty clothes, some kalbi meat, and a gorgeous house.
He came into the wrong house.
It's for the Imperial House, is it not?!
Madam, here is the key to your house.
Madam, here is the key - to your house. - Thank you.
I can guard your house, take the children to school, - anything!
Never set foot in this house!
Let us through. We're going to the government house.
Of her house.
Best seat in the house, for the guest of honor.
We used to come over to his house for the weekend.
My house is the most chaotic, loudest place ever and sometimes I look around and I feel devastatingly alone.
Our house. 009, at this rate.
So I guess that little incident back at the house makes us fugitives for real, doesn't it?
The new house has got a fat cat. Do you know him?
She will leave the house this very night..
Your wife doesn't want to make up with you, because you have offended her honour. She will leave this house under my protection.
New house.
She's going crazy and losing control of her powers because she has no idea what she's doing. If we're studying at Scott's house, then where's Scott?
And so the reason she dragged Derek into his house is because she was under the spell of Peter hale.
Mr. Joo Joong Won. If that's the case, I want to formally invite you to my house.
With such a house how could there be no one?
Doesn't this house have a Verandah Ghost?
This house doesn't have any residing ghosts?!
Should I burn down (the house and her)?
Her parents, Russian immigrants, kicked her out of the house when she was 14.
Joshy, I needed that sage to cleanse the house of evil spirits. Ghosts are obsessed with me.
You got me invited to Josh's house, okay.
You guys really should've come inside the house.
For days and years to come, people will tell the story of three brave young men who courageously fought back against the tyranny of rambunctious teens. dressed in paintball gear, in our mid-20s. about to storm a house.
Then I don't see why you can't squeeze in your house calls between 11 and half past 12 and drive them all to Roehampton after that.

News and current affairs

For example, groups like Freedom House and Human Rights Watch have documented widespread official repression of the Oromo people.
After all, institutions are not hot-house plants capable of being planted in any soil and climate.
Absent a clear path to a much tighter fiscal and political union, which can lead only through constitutional change, the current halfway house of the euro system appears increasingly untenable.
And Greenspan eschews paternalism: he would not assume the role of a regulator telling people that they cannot buy a house even though a lender is willing to finance it.
Are we really supposed to admire and love modern monarchies, such as the British House of Windsor, even more so today, just because some new princess has been plucked from the middle class?
One can anticipate the Republicans, now in control of the House of Representatives, exploiting their ability to convene hearings to question and review foreign policy.
The US had not revised its policy, even with an African immigrant's son living in the White House.
The housing price bubble eventually broke, and, with prices declining, some have discovered that their mortgages are larger than the value of their house.
Sometime in the future, payments would rise, but borrowers were told, again, not to worry: house prices would rise faster, making it easy to refinance with another negative amortization loan.
These include a hateful bill - which the House of Representatives has already approved - that provides for the construction of a wall along the US-Mexican border and makes unauthorized entry into the US a felony.
He will never get a guest-worker program without Democratic support, which in turn is unlikely unless the White House supports access to a program for unauthorized immigrants already in the US that includes some type of path to residence and citizenship.
Vested interests remain powerful, certainly in Congress - and even within the White House.
And November's election did not change the balance of power anywhere in the American government: Obama remains President, the Republicans remain in control of the House of Representatives, and the Democrats control the Senate.
We cannot be sure about how much further house prices will fall.
Of course, the fall of the house of Lehman Brothers has nothing to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
NEW YORK - In the afternoon of July 16 two men appeared to be breaking into a fine house in an expensive area of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He saw one black male standing inside the house and asked him to come out.
Despite her two decades of house arrest and isolation, Suu Kyi possesses two of the gifts that enabled Mandela to carry out his great task: a reassuring serenity and an utter lack of vindictiveness.
GAZA - This was supposed to be my first year of medical school. Instead, I am stuck here in Gaza, in my father's house inside the Jabalia refugee camp, with few options and no way out.
When they do, I will probably still be here in my father's house, waiting for the blockade to end.
It has already faced intense criticism for its failure to get the country's fiscal house in order.
A typical Western-style house in Kampala or Accra, for example, now costs an astonishing two to three times the price of a comparable home in, say, Cleveland or other cities in the American heartland.
Instead, I am stuck here in Gaza, in my father's house inside the Jabalia refugee camp, with few options and no way out.
But averting such a crisis requires that the White House and Congress, Democrats and Republicans, agree on a plan for moving the US budget toward balance.
Economists, as opposed to those who make their living gambling on stocks, make no claim to being able to predict when the day of reckoning will come, much less identifying the event that will bring down the house of cards.
Ultimately, these financial failures reflect the downward spiral of house prices and the increasing number of homes with negative equity, i.e., with substantial mortgage debt in excess of market values.

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