English Dictionary

house

/haʊs/

noun

A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. / (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.

I live in a beautiful house.

意味（1）

A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

意味（2）

(Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.

意味（3）

A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.

意味（4）

The people who live in a house; a household.

one that feared God with all his house

意味（5）

A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.

A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.

意味（6）

A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.

One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.

意味（7）

(historical) A workhouse.

To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work.

意味（8）

The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

意味（9）

A theatre.

After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

意味（10）

(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.

The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.

意味（11）

A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.

A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.

意味（12）

(figuratively) A place of rest or repose.

Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.

意味（13）

A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.

I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.

意味（14）

An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.

意味（15）

(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.

意味（16）

(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.

意味（17）

(chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

意味（18）

(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

意味（19）

Lotto; bingo.

意味（20）

(uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.

意味（21）

(US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.

意味（22）

(sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.