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You can refer to all the people who live together in a h____ as the house .You can refer to all the people who live together in a house as the house .
If he set his alarm clock for midnight, it would wake the whole house.
word house
full-definition
noun
A house is a building in which people live, usually the people belonging to one family.
She has moved to a smaller house.
...her parents' house in Warwickshire.
You can refer to all the people who live together in a house as the house .
If he set his alarm clock for midnight, it would wake the whole house.
House is used in the names of types of places where people go to eat and drink.
...a steak house.
...an old Salzburg coffee house.
House is used in the names of types of companies, especially ones which publish books, lend money, or design clothes.
Many of the clothes come from the world's top fashion houses.
Eventually she was fired from her job at a publishing house.
House is sometimes used in the names of office buildings and large private homes or expensive houses.
I was to go to the very top floor of Bush House in Aldwych.
...Harewood House near Leeds.
You can refer to the two main bodies of Britain's parliament and the United States of America's legislature as the House or a House .
Some members of the House and Senate worked all day yesterday.
The Republicans have majorities in both Houses.
You can refer to all the people at a debate as the house .
The club is planning a public debate on 'This house believes that journalism has not gained from the introduction of new technology'.
In a British school, a house is a group of children of different ages who compete against other groups in sports and other activities. Each house usually has a name.
He was a prefect and house captain.
A house is a family which has been or will be important for many generations, especially the family of a king or queen .
...the Saudi Royal House.
...the House of Windsor.
The house is the part of a theatre, cinema, or other place of entertainment where the audience sits . You can also refer to the audience at a particular performance as the house .
They played in front of a packed house.
adjective
A restaurant's house wine is the cheapest wine it sells, which is not listed by name on the wine list.
Tweed ordered a carafe of the house wine.
...a bottle of house red or white.
verb
To house someone means to provide a house or flat for them to live in.
Part III of the Housing Act 1985 imposes duties on local authorities to house homeless people.
Regrettably we have to house families in these inadequate flats.
A building or container that houses something is the place where it is located or from where it operates.
The château itself is open to the public and houses a museum of motorcycles and cars.
Many years later, the temple erected in her name was used to house the Roman mint.
If you say that a building houses a number of people, you mean that is the place where they live or where they are staying .
The building will house twelve boys and eight girls.
Their villas housed army officers now.
inflections houseshousinghoused
cefr-level B2

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