A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something: a carriage house; the lion house at the zoo.
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A commercial firm: a brokerage house.
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A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit: a sorority house.
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A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public: a movie house; the specialty of the house.
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A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family: the House of Orange.
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verb-transitive
Nautical To secure or stow safely.
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To contain; harbor.
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To fit into a socket or mortise.
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To provide living quarters for; lodge: The cottage housed ten students.
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To shelter, keep, or store in or as if in a house: a library housing rare books.
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idiom
On fire Informal In an extremely speedy manner: ran away like a house on fire; tickets that sold like a house afire.
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On the house At the expense of the establishment; free: food and drinks on the house.
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verb-intransitive
To reside; dwell.
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To take shelter.
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verb
To provide with living quarters or shelter.
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To store in a house.
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To encase, enclose, or shelter as if by putting in a house.
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To serve as a shelter or container for.
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To take shelter.
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