house

See also: House

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.

The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.)

Alternative forms

howse (obsolete)

Pronunciation

enPR: hous, IPA^(key): /haʊs/
(Canada, Virginia) IPA^(key): /hʌʊs/
Audio (US) (file)
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Rhymes: -aʊs

Noun

The house of a Japanese rice farmer

A city-house. In this photo, its garden doesn't appear

house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)

A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. [from 9th c.]
This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620:
  The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them, […].
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
  Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
1. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
(uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations.
- 2007 November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, in Newsweek:
  Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.
A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 10:2:
  one that feared God with all his house
A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.
1. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]
  A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
  - 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, OCLC 83401042:
    I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
2. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof. [from 10th c.]
  One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
  The house always wins.
3. (historical) A workhouse.
  - 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners (volume 29, page 169)
    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.
The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎:
  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.
A theatre.
After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
- 1964, Northwest Ohio Quarterly (volume 36, page 185)
  The farce comedy which followed, When We're Married by Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation. The production filled the house.
(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]
The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.
A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]
A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
(figurative) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
- 1598, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.
- 1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], OCLC 25523028:
  Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […].
A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]
I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.
An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p.313:
  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.
(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
(chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
(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.
(US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
(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.

Synonyms

(establishment): shop
(company or organisation): shop

Hypernyms

building
dwelling, residence

Hyponyms

alehouse
auction house
backhouse
basket house
birdhouse
boathouse
boghouse
bog-house
chapter house
coffee house
common house
cophouse
country house
doghouse
doll's house
doss-house
dosshouse
dreamhouse
dream house
flophouse
flop-house
frame house
full house
glasshouse
God's house
Government House
Greek house
greenhouse
grow house
guest-house
guesthouse
guest house
halfway house
haunted house
house of assembly
House of Commons
house of correction
house of detention
house of God
house of ill fame
house of ill repute
House of Lords
house of office
house of worship
Houses of Parliament
jakeshouse
lighthouse
little house
long house
long-house
longhouse
lower house
meeting-house
meetinghouse
meeting house
move house
outhouse
play-house
playhouse
play house
poorhouse
prisonhouse
privy house
public house
publishing house
pumphouse
pump house
royal house
safehouse
schoolhouse
school house
scouthouse
shithouse
shophouse
siegehouse
storehouse
tea house
tiny house
town house
toy house
tribal house
upper house
warehouse
wartime house
weather house
Wendy house
White House
whorehouse

Derived terms

acceptance house
accepting house
acid house
action house
a house divided against itself cannot stand
a house is not a home
ale-house
alehouse
alms-house
ambient house
Archie Bunker house
art-house
art house
automated clearing house
baby-house
back-house
backhouse
back house
back of house
balti house
basket-house
bat house
bawdy-house
bawdy house
bawdy-house bottle
beef house
beef-house
big house
big room house
birdhouse
black-house
black house spider
blowing house
boarding house
boarding house
boathouse
boghouse
bone-house wasp
booby house
bookhouse
boom house
boom-house
bottom the house
bounce house
box house
brick house
bring down the house
bring the house down
broiler house
brothel house
brothel-house
burning house
call house
can house
card-house
card house
car-house
carriage house
cat house
cat-house
chapter-house
charnel house
charnel-house
chattel house
chop house
chute house
cider house
clean house
clearing house
coffee-house
common house gecko
common house martin
compliments of the house
compting house
conditioning house
content house
corn house
council house
counting house
counting-house
court-house
crack house
crimping house
Cross Houses
cubby house
curry house
Custom House
custom house, customhouse
customs house
deaconess-house
deadhouse
death house
deep house
detached house
disorderly house
doghouse
dog house
dope house
dosshouse
draft house
draught house
draught-house
dress the house
dwelling-house
dwelling house
dwellinghouse
dye-house
eat someone out of house and home
eco-house
engine house
fancy house
farmhouse
farm house
fashion house
fat as a house
Fence Houses
Fencehouses
fern house
field house
fire house
fish house
fish-house
flash house
flophouse
folk house
forcing house
forever house
four door house
fowl-house
frater house
frater-house
frat house
free house
front of house
front-of-house
front of the house
fund house
fun house
future house
gambling house
gaming house
garden house
gate house
get one's house in order
get on like a house on fire
ghetto house
giant house spider
gig house
gig-house
glasshouse
glebe-house
gong-house
good house
go to the goat's house for wool
great house
greenhouse
guesthouse
hall house
hash house
head house
hell house
hen house
hen-house
hice
honey house
hot-house
house arrest
house ball
house band
house barn
house-barn
houseboat
house-bote
housebound
houseboy
house-boy
house boy
house brand
housebreaker
house breaker
house-breaker
house-broken
house call
house-call
housecat
house cat
house centipede
house church
house-coat
housecoat
house-commune
house cooling party
house cricket
house curtain
house detective
house-detective
house dick
house divided
house dog
house door
house-door
house finch
house-flag
house flag
house floor
housefly
housefolk
house frau
house gecko
house guest
household
householder
house-hunter
house-hunting
househusband
house husband
house in Virginia
housekeeper
house keeper
housekeeping
house lamb
house leader
house left
house lights
house-like
house lizard
house maid
house-maid
housemaid
houseman
house manager
house martin
housemaster
house master
housemate
house money
house moss
house mouse
house mover
house music
house negro
house nigga
house nigger
house number
house of accommodation
house of assignation
house of call
house of cards
house of commons
house of ease
house of easement
house officer
house of refuge
house organ
house party
housepet
house phone
house plant
houseplant
house plunder
house-plunder
house points
house poor
house proud
house-proud
house rat
house right
house rule
house-search
house show
house sit
house-sit
house-sitter
house sitter
house slave
house-slipper
house slipper
house society
house sparrow
house spider
house style
house-to-house
house trailer
house train
house-train
house-trained
house wall
house-wall
house-warming
house warming
housewife
house wine
housework
house wren
housing
housy-housy
hush house
ice-house
ice house
in house
in-house
in the house
Italo house
it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home
it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
jakes-house
jakes house
jakeshouse
Jew's house
jobbing house
johnny house
jook house
joss house
joy house
juke house
keep house
kill house
kutcha house
laithe house
laithe-house
laneway house
lazar house
lazar-house
leaping house
leaping-house
lighthouse
like a house afire
lit-house
lockup house
lodging house
Lombard house
lower house
main house
managed house
manor house
market-house
meat house
meeting-house
meetinghouse
meeting house
member of lower house
member of upper house
milk-house
milk house
minster house
Mollie house
mollie house
mollie-house
Molly house
molly-house
molly house
monkey-house
move house
movie house
music house
nail house
narrow house
neat-house
necessary house
negro-house
news-house
night-house
night house
northern house martin
nut house
oast house
office-house
on the house
open house
opera house
opera house trap
orchard house
outhouse
out of house and home
panel house
paper house
paper the house
parish house
parlor house
passage-house
passage house
peg house
pension house
penthouse
people's house
petty-house
picket-house
picket house
Pict's house
playhouse
play with house money
pool house
poorhouse
poor house
post-house
post house
posting house
pot-house
printing house
printing-house
prison house
prisonhouse
private-wire house
privy-house
progressive house
proof house
public-house
pumphouse
punch house
put one's house in order
rasp-house
receiving house
rock the house
rooming house
rope-house
rough-house
rough house
round house
row house
run of house
safehouse
safe house
schoolhouse
section-house
senate-house
set one's house in order
settlement house
share house
shithouse
shit house
shophouse
shotgun house
shouse
sickhouse
siege-house
siegehouse
siege house
skeleton in the house
smallest room in the house
snow house
society house
software house
sole house
spinning house
spirit house
spite house
split the house
sponging house
sponging-house
sporting house
spring house
spunging-house
starter house
state house
station-house
station house
steak house
storehouse
stroke house
study house
sugar house
sugar-house
summer house
summer-house
Sunday house
tackle house
tackle-house
take it to the house
tech house
telescope house
terraced house
the call is coming from inside the house
the house always wins
throw stones in a glass house
tied house
tower house
tract house
trap house
treasure house
tree house
tropical house
trugging-house
try house
victualling house
warehouse
washhouse, wash house
watch house
watering house
wheel-house
wheel house
whore house
whorehouse
wirehouse
witch house
woodhouse
work house
wring-house

Descendants

Nigerian Pidgin: haus
Tok Pisin: haus
Sranan Tongo: oso
- → Dutch: osso

Translations

See house/translations § Noun.

Etymology 2

From Middle English housen, from Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).

Pronunciation

enPR: houz, IPA^(key): /haʊz/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz
Homophone: how's

Verb

house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)

(transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
The car is housed in the garage.
- 1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: Or The Gard’ners Almanac; […] [November.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, OCLC 988700438, page 29:
  Houſe your choiceſt Carnations, or rather ſet them under a Pent-houſe againſt a South-wall, ſo as a covering being thrown over them to preſerve them in extremity of weather, they may yet enjoy the freer air at all other times.
- 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646:
  Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
(transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The First Booke] Chapter 1”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127, page 41:
  Palladius wished him [...] to house all the Helots.
To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene v]:
  You shall not house with me.
(transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
  Where Saturn houses.
(transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
(transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
The joists were housed into the side walls, rather than being hung from them.
(obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
  Euen now we hous'd him in the Abbey heere
(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], OCLC 1203213428:
  Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre
(nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
to house the upper spars
(Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat.
- 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
  All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.

Synonyms

(keep within a structure or container): store
(admit to residence): accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up
(contain or enclose mechanical parts): enclose

Translations

keep within a structure or container

Bulgarian: помещавам (pomeštavam)
Danish: indhuse
French: garer (fr), loger (fr)
Italian: collocare (it)
Lithuanian: namas (lt)
Macedonian: сместува (smestuva)
Portuguese: armazenar (pt)
Russian: вмеща́ть (ru) (vmeščátʹ)
Spanish: almacenar (es)
Swahili: nyumba (sw)
Turkish: barındırmak (tr)

admit to residence

Catalan: allotjar (ca)
Dutch: onderbrengen (nl)
French: héberger (fr), abriter (fr), loger (fr)
Galician: albergar (gl), aloxar (gl)
German: unterbringen (de), beherbergen (de)
Ido: lojigar (io)
Italian: alloggiare (it)
Macedonian: вдомува (vdomuva), сместува (smestuva)
Portuguese: alojar (pt), hospedar (pt)
Russian: помеща́ть (ru) (pomeščátʹ), сели́ть (ru) (selítʹ)
Spanish: alojar (es), hospedar (es), albergar (es)

take shelter

Bulgarian: подслонявам се (podslonjavam se)
Galician: albergar (gl)
Maori: whakawhare

dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses

Swahili: nyumba (sw)

contain or enclose mechanical parts

Spanish: encajar (es), envolver (es)
Swahili: nyumba (sw)
Turkish: barındırmak (tr)

Etymology 3

Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.

Pronunciation

enPR: hous, IPA^(key): /haʊs/

Noun

house (uncountable)

(music) House music.
- 1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 73:
  […] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.
- 2001 March, Philip Sherburne, “Exos, Strength [album review]”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 91, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, ISSN 1074-6978, page 66:
  And while hard, minimal techno has become increasingly influenced by house and Oval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school on Strength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno purists Surgeon and Oliver Ho.
- 2006, Mark Jonathan Butler, Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 45:
  The first genre of American dance music to become popular in the United Kingdom was Chicago house. Although music from Detroit was soon imported as well, it was often treated as subcategory of house, and for many years the most common English term for electronic dance music in general was "house" or "acid house". […] During the formative years of techno and house, the musicians involved interacted in various ways.

Translations

genre of music — see house music

Chinese

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): hau¹ si²

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hau¹ si²
  - Yale: hāu sí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hau¹ si²
  - Guangdong Romanization: heo¹ xi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

Noun

house

(Hong Kong Cantonese) mansion; large house

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɦou̯sɛ]

Noun

house n

gosling

Declension

Declension of house

	singular	plural
nominative	house	housata
genitive	housete	housat
dative	houseti	housatům
accusative	house	housata
vocative	house	housata
locative	houseti	housatech
instrumental	housetem	housaty

Noun

house m anim

house music, house (a genre of music)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

house m (uncountable)

house music, house (a genre of music)

Finnish

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɑu̯s/, [ˈhɑu̯s̠]
Syllabification^(key): hou‧se

Noun

house (uncountable)

(music) house music, house (a genre of music)

Declension

Inflection of house (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		house	—
genitive		housen	—
partitive		housea	—
illative		houseen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		house	—
accusative	nom.	house	—
accusative	gen.	housen	—
genitive		housen	—
partitive		housea	—
inessive		housessa	—
elative		housesta	—
illative		houseen	—
adessive		housella	—
ablative		houselta	—
allative		houselle	—
essive		housena	—
translative		houseksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		housetta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of house (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	houseni	housemme
2nd person	housesi	housenne
3rd person	housensa

French

Pronunciation

^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aws/

Noun

house f (uncountable)

house music, house (a genre of music)
Synonym: house music

Anagrams

houes, houés

Hungarian

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈhɒuz]
Hyphenation: house[1]
Rhymes: -uz

Noun

house (plural house-ok)

(music) house music, house (a type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	house	house-ok
accusative	house-t	house-okat
dative	house-nak	house-oknak
instrumental	house-zal	house-okkal
causal-final	house-ért	house-okért
translative	house-zá	house-okká
terminative	house-ig	house-okig
essive-formal	house-ként	house-okként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	house-ban	house-okban
superessive	house-on	house-okon
adessive	house-nál	house-oknál
illative	house-ba	house-okba
sublative	house-ra	house-okra
allative	house-hoz	house-okhoz
elative	house-ból	house-okból
delative	house-ról	house-okról
ablative	house-tól	house-októl
non-attributive possessive - singular	house-é	house-oké
non-attributive possessive - plural	house-éi	house-okéi

Possessive forms of house
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	house-om	house-aim
2nd person sing.	house-od	house-aid
3rd person sing.	house-a	house-ai
1st person plural	house-unk	house-aink
2nd person plural	house-otok	house-aitok
3rd person plural	house-uk	house-aik

Derived terms

house-parti
house-zene

References

Laczkó, Krisztina and Attila Mártonfi. Helyesírás (’Orthography’). Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2006. →ISBN

Middle English

Noun

house

Alternative form of hous

Verb

house

Alternative form of housen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English house, house music.

Noun

house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)

house music, house (a genre of music)

Synonyms

housemusikk

References

“house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

house m

house music, house (a genre of music)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English house music. Doublet of chyża (“barn”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xaws/
Rhymes: -aws
Syllabification: house

Noun

house m inan

house music, house (a genre of music)

Declension

Declension of house

	singular
nominative	house
genitive	house'u
dative	house'owi
accusative	house
instrumental	house'em
locative	housie
vocative	housie

Derived terms

adjectives

house'owy
housowy

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English house (music).

Noun

house m (uncountable)

house music, house (a genre of music)
Synonym: música house

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English house.

Noun

house m (uncountable)

house music

Declension

declension of house (singular only)

	singular
m gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) house	houseul
genitive/dative	(unui) house	houseului
vocative	houseule

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English house music.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈxaus/ [ˈxau̯s]
Rhymes: -aus

Noun

house m (uncountable)

house music, house (a genre of music)
Synonym: música house

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Etymology

From English house music.

Noun

house c

house music, house (a genre of music)

Declension

Declension of house
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	house	housen	—	—
Genitive	houses	housens	—	—

Synonyms

housemusik, house-musik

[1] Laczkó, Krisztina and Attila Mártonfi. Helyesírás (’Orthography’). Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2006. →ISBN

house

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Further reading

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

Synonyms

Translations

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

Translations

Chinese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Noun

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

French

Pronunciation

Noun

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

References

Middle English

Noun

Verb

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Noun

Synonyms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

Polish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Noun

Romanian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes