1. house - Noun
2. house - Verb
3. House - Proper noun
A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.
Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.
Those who dwell in the same house; a household.
A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.
One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.
A firm, or commercial establishment.
A public house; an inn; a hotel.
A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.
A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.
The body, as the habitation of the soul.
The grave.
To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.
To drive to a shelter.
To admit to residence; to harbor.
To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.
To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.
To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer
Bring home a wife to your house when you are of the right age, while you are not far short of thirty years nor much above; this is the right age for marriage. Hesiod
But it is not only of the space in the Church which we ought to be jealous, but also of the interiors of the house of God in us, so that it might not become a house of merchandise, or a den of robbers. Ambrose
A house with two keys is worth nothing. African Congo Proverb
To a friend's house the road is never long. Danish Proverb
The house of the loud talker leaks. African Zulu Proverb