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Hous.

Hous. is the abbreviation of housing.

Hous. is the abbreviation of Houston.

Meaning of housing

Noun

housing (countable and uncountable, plural housings)

  1. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
    • Housing of homeless families is a priority.
  2. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.
    • She lives in low-income housing.
  3. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
    • The gears were grinding against their housing.
  4. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
  5. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
  6. The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.

See all 9 meanings of housing

Meaning of Houston

Proper noun

Houston (countable and uncountable, plural Houstons)

  1. A habitational surname.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of mainly American usage.
  3. A large city, the county seat of Harris County, Texas, United States, named after Sam Houston.
    • Spring in Houston is scalding sidewalks and sun-drunk lovebugs. It’s dead grass and midday thunderstorms. It isn’t the beginning or the end of anything, just a prolonged in-between through dead-end traffic on I-45.2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 254
    Synonyms:
    Space City
  4. A village in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland.
  5. A town in the Bulkley Valley, British Columbia, Canada.
  6. An unincorporated community in Winston County, Alabama.

See all 22 meanings of Houston

Questions about Hous.

What is Hous. the abbreviation of?
Hous. is the abbreviation of housing.

Words near Hous. in the dictionary

  1. hours-long
  2. hoursful
  3. hourslong
  4. hoursworth
  5. hourwise
  6. Hous.
  7. housability
  8. housable
  9. housage
  10. housages
  11. housane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hous. (page history and authors); housing (page history and authors); Houston (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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