House
A house is a home, building or structure the primary function of which is to be occupied for habitation by humans or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to complex structures composed of many systems. English-speaking people generally call any building they routinely occupy "home".
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78 Derngate is a Grade II* listed Georgian house in the Derngate area of Northampton, England, originally built in the 1820s ... In 1926 the Bassett Lowkes moved to New Ways, a pioneering modernist house designed by Peter Behrens close to Abington Park ... In 2002 work started to restore the house to Mackintosh's original design ...
... of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives ... The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Seventh Census of the United States in 1850 ... Senate had a Democratic majority, and the House had a Republican plurality ...
... Houses may express the circumstances or opinions of their builders or their inhabitants ... Thus a vast and elaborate house may serve as a sign of conspicuous wealth, whereas a low-profile house built of recycled materials may indicate support of energy conservation ... Houses of particular historical significance (former residences of the famous, for example, or even just very old houses) may gain a protected status in town planning as examples of ...
... Houses Official Name Informal Name House Letter Chernocke House Furley's A Moberly's Toye's B Du Boulay's Cook's C Fearon's Kenny's D Morshead's Freddie's E Hawkins' Chawker's ... College is not usually referred to as a house, except for the purposes of categorisation hence the terms 'housemaster of College' and 'College house' are not generally used ... Every pupil at Winchester, apart from the Scholars, lives in a boarding house, chosen or allocated when applying to Winchester ...
... in similar fields, to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house in the Parliament of India ... Currently, the upper houses of the state legislatures in the six states that have them have graduate's constituencies, that elect one-twelfth of their members ... Thirteen Colonies The College of William Mary held a seat in the House of Burgesses of the Virginia Colony in 1663, and was supported by taxes on tobacco and furs ...
More definitions of "house":
- (noun): Members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments.
Example: "He worked for a brokerage house"
Synonyms: firm, business firm
- (noun): An official assembly having legislative powers.
Example: "The legislature has two houses"
- (noun): The members of a religious community living together.
- (noun): Play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults.
Example: "The children were playing house"
- (noun): (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided.
Synonyms: sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, planetary house
- (verb): Provide housing for.
Synonyms: put up, domiciliate
- (noun): The management of a gambling house or casino.
Example: "The house gets a percentage of every bet"
- (noun): A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families.
Example: "He has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house"
- (noun): A building in which something is sheltered or located.
Example: "They had a large carriage house"
- (verb): Contain or cover.
Example: "This box houses the gears"
- (noun): A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented.
Example: "The house was full"
Synonyms: theater, theatre
- (noun): The audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema.
Example: "The house applauded"; "he counted the house"
Famous quotes containing the word house:
“Somewhere between the overly intrusive parent and the parent who forgets about us after we’re out of the house is the ideally empathetic parent who recognizes the relativity of choice, the errors of his or her own way, and our need to find our own way and who can stay with us at a respectful distance while we do it.”
—Roger Gould (20th century)
“It is getting dark and time he drew to a house,
But the blizzard blinds him to any house ahead.
The storm gets down his neck in any icy souse
That sucks his breath like a wicked cat in bed.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first, and limber as the second. We want a ship in these billows we inhabit. An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters, in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all; as a shell is the architecture of a house founded on the sea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)