Definition of “house”

noun

1. 1. a building used as a home; dwelling
   2. ((as modifier)  ⇒ house dog 
2. the people present in a house, esp its usual occupants
3. 1. a building used for some specific purpose
   2. ((in combination)  ⇒ a schoolhouse 
4. (often capital) a family line including ancestors and relatives, esp a noble one  ⇒ the House of York 
5. 1. a commercial company; firm  ⇒ a publishing house 
   2. ((as modifier)  ⇒ house style a house journal 
6. an official deliberative or legislative body, such as one chamber of a bicameral legislature
7. a quorum in such a body (esp in the phrase make a house)
8. a dwelling for a religious community
9. astrology any of the 12 divisions of the zodiac See also planet (sense 3)
10. 1. any of several divisions, esp residential, of a large school
    2. ((as modifier)  ⇒ house spirit 
11. 1. a hotel, restaurant, bar, inn, club, etc, or the management of such an establishment
    2. ((as modifier)  ⇒ house rules 
    3. ((in combination)  ⇒ steakhouse 
12. (modifier) (of wine) sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list  ⇒ the house red 
13. the audience in a theatre or cinema
14. an informal word for brothel
15. a hall in which an official deliberative or legislative body meets
16. See full house
17. curling the 12-foot target circle around the tee
18. nautical any structure or shelter on the weather deck of a vessel
19. See bring the house down
20. See house and home
21. See keep open house
22. See like a house on fire
23. See on the house
24. See put one's house in order
25. See safe as houses

verb

26. (tr) to provide with or serve as accommodation
27. to give or receive shelter or lodging
28. (tr) to contain or cover, esp in order to protect
29. (tr) to fit (a piece of wood) into a mortise, joint, etc
30. (tr) nautical 
    1. to secure or stow
    2. to secure (a topmast)
    3. to secure and stow (an anchor)

noun

• See the House

noun

1. a type of disco music originating in the late 1980s, based on funk, with fragments of other recordings edited in electronically