housen

Noun

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

1. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
   • This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
   1. (Hong-Kong) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
2. A container; a thing which houses another.
   • The purposes of food are to promote growth, to supply force and heat, and to furnish material to repair the waste which is constantly taking place in the body. Every breath, every thought, every motion, wears out some portion of the delicate and wonderful house in which we live.1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of...
3. (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
   • Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.2007 November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, in Newsweek
4. A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
5. The people who live in a house; a household.
   • one that feared God with all his house1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:2

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