House | Mean of house in English Dictionary

/ˈhaʊs/

• Noun
• a building in which a family lives
1. Would you like to come to my house for dinner?
2. a two-family house
3. I spent the weekend just puttering around the house.
4. house pets/plants
5. a house guest
6. house parties
• the people who live in a house
1. He made enough noise to wake the whole house.
• a structure or shelter in which animals are kept

• a building in which something is stored
1. a carriage house
• a building where students or members of a religious group live
1. a fraternity house
• a group of people who meet to discuss and make the laws of a country
1. The bill has been approved by both houses of Congress.
2. The two houses of the U.S. Congress are the Senate [=the upper house] and the House of Representatives. [=the lower house]
3. The two houses of the British Parliament are the House of Lords [=the upper house] and the House of Commons. [=the lower house]
• a specified kind of business
1. a publishing house
2. fashion houses
3. an investment banking house
4. a brokerage house
• a place or building where a specified kind of activity or entertainment occurs
1. an auction house
2. a house of God/worship [=a place, such as a church, where people go for religious services]
3. (US) a movie house [=a cinema, (US) a movie theater]
4. a gambling house
5. a house of prostitution
• a particular kind of restaurant
1. We had dinner at the local fish house.
2. a seafood house
3. Oyster stew is a specialty of the house. [=a special dish that is featured in a restaurant]
4. Would you like the house salad or a spinach salad?
5. The house dressing is a creamy vinaigrette.
• the audience in a theater or concert hall
1. They had a full/packed house on opening night.
2. When the movie ended, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. [=everyone had tears in their eyes]
3. His performance brought down the house night after night.
• a royal or noble family including ancestors and all the people who are related to them
1. the House of Tudor
• a type of electronic dance music with a heavy, regular beat
• to clean the floors, furniture, etc., inside a house
1. He cleans house on Tuesdays.
• to make important basic changes in an organization, business, etc., in order to correct problems
1. After the corruption was revealed, the police chief decided it was time to clean house.
• to do the work that is needed to take care of a house
1. When I started living on my own I had no idea how to cook or keep house.
2. You need someone to keep house for you.
• extremely well
1. Those two got on/along like a house on fire. [=they liked each other very much]
2. (US) The business started out like a house on fire. [=the business started very successfully]
• without charge
1. The drinks are on the house.
• to become settled in a house where you are going to live
1. They moved to California and set up house in a suburb of Los Angeles.
• Verb
• to provide shelter or a living space for (someone)
1. More prisons are needed to house the growing number of inmates.
2. The soldiers were housed in poorly heated huts.
• to be a shelter for (something)
1. The museum houses an impressive collection of jewels.
2. The paintings are now housed in the National Gallery.
• to surround or enclose (something) in order to protect it
1. The carpenter built casing to house the hot water pipes.