house plural
house
The plural form of house is houses
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- noun plural house a building in which people live; residence for human beings. 1
- noun plural house a household. 1
- noun plural house (often initial capital letter) a family, including ancestors and descendants: the great houses of France; the House of Hapsburg. 1
- noun plural house a building for any purpose: a house of worship. 1
- noun plural house a theater, concert hall, or auditorium: a vaudeville house. 1
- noun plural house the audience of a theater or the like. 1
- noun plural house a place of shelter for an animal, bird, etc. 1
- noun plural house the building in which a legislative or official deliberative body meets. 1
- noun plural house (initial capital letter) the body itself, especially of a bicameral legislature: the House of Representatives. 1
- noun plural house a quorum of such a body. 1
- noun plural house (often initial capital letter) a commercial establishment; business firm: the House of Rothschild; a publishing house. 1
- noun plural house a gambling casino. 1
- noun plural house the management of a commercial establishment or of a gambling casino: rules of the house. 1
- noun plural house an advisory or deliberative group, especially in church or college affairs. 1
- noun plural house a college in an English-type university. 1
- noun plural house a residential hall in a college or school; dormitory. 1
- noun plural house the members or residents of any such residential hall. 1
- noun plural house Informal. a brothel; whorehouse. 1
- noun plural house British. a variety of lotto or bingo played with paper and pencil, especially by soldiers as a gambling game. 1
- noun plural house Also called parish. Curling. the area enclosed by a circle 12 or 14 feet (3.7 or 4.2 meters) in diameter at each end of the rink, having the tee in the center. 1
- noun plural house Nautical. any enclosed shelter above the weather deck of a vessel: bridge house; deck house. 1
- noun plural house Astrology. one of the 12 divisions of the celestial sphere, numbered counterclockwise from the point of the eastern horizon. 1