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▸ noun:  A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
▸ noun:  (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
▸ noun:  A container; a thing which houses another.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
▸ noun:  A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
▸ noun:  The people who live in a house; a household.
▸ noun:  A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
▸ noun:  A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
▸ noun:  A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
▸ noun:  (historical) A workhouse.
▸ noun:  The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
▸ noun:  (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
▸ noun:  A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
▸ noun:  A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
▸ noun:  An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
▸ noun:  (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
▸ noun:  (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
▸ noun:  (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
▸ noun:  (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
▸ noun:  Lotto; bingo.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
▸ noun:  (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
▸ verb:  To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
▸ verb:  (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
▸ verb:  (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
▸ verb:  (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
▸ noun:  (music) House music.
▸ noun:  More generally, a shortened name for any chamber of a legislature that is named "House of...", especially where the other chamber(s) are not so named, or where there is no other chamber (unicameral).
▸ noun:  A placename
▸ noun:  A village in New Mexico.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
▸ noun:  A topographic surname from Middle English for someone residing in a house (as opposed to a hut) or in a religious house.
▸ noun:  (Oxford University slang, dated) Christ Church, Oxford.
▸ noun:  (politics) A particular chamber of political representation [The lower house in the bicameral legislatures of several countries; also some singular legislative bodies in unicameral systems.]
▸ noun:  (US politics, as "the House") Ellipsis of House of Representatives. [The lower house in the bicameral legislatures of several countries; also some singular legislative bodies in unicameral systems.]
▸ noun:  (politics, Westminsterian parliamentary systems) Ellipsis of House of Commons. [(UK politics) The lower house of the British Parliament.]
▸ noun:  (politics) Ellipsis of House of Parliament. [A legislative body in a government with a parliamentary system of government.]

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