houses
/ˈhaʊzɪz/
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houses is the plural of house.
houses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of house.
Meaning of house
Noun
house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
- An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- 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...
- 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
- 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.
- one that feared God with all his house1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:2
Proper noun capitalized: Houses
Houses
- plural of House
Phrases with houses
- ale houses
- art houses
- bat houses
- big houses
- box houses
- can houses
- cat houses
- dog houses
- fun houses
- gig houses
- hen houses
- hog houses
188 more phrasesFewer phrases
- ice houses
- joy houses
- nut houses
- peg houses
- rat houses
- row houses
- tan houses
- tea houses
- toy houses
- try houses
- back houses
- Beck Houses
- beef houses
- bird houses
- boom houses
- call houses
- card houses
- cell houses
- chop houses
- corn houses
- dead houses
- dope houses
- doss houses
- drug houses
- dual houses
- farm houses
- fern houses
- fire houses
- fish houses
- Five Houses
- folk houses
- frat houses
- free houses
- full houses
- fund houses
- gate houses
- good houses
- grow houses
- hall houses
- hash houses
- head houses
- hell houses
- hoop houses
- hush houses
- iron houses
- jook houses
- joss houses
- juke houses
- kill houses
- live houses
- long houses
- main houses
- malt houses
- mask houses
- meat houses
- milk houses
- mort houses
- nail houses
- oast houses
- open houses
- play houses
- pool houses
- poor houses
- pump houses
- punk houses
- rest houses
- rock houses
- safe houses
- shit houses
- snow houses
- sole houses
- tied houses
- tiny houses
- town houses
- trap houses
- tree houses
- wash houses
- wine houses
- work houses
- balti houses
- bawdy houses
- beach houses
- booby houses
- brick houses
- cadet houses
- chute houses
- cider houses
- coach houses
- crack houses
- Cross Houses
- cubby houses
- curry houses
- death houses
- draft houses
- dream houses
- fancy houses
- Fence Houses
- field houses
- flash houses
- frame houses
- ghost houses
- God's houses
- great houses
- Greek houses
- guest houses
- honey houses
- jakes houses
- Jews' houses
- lazar houses
- light houses
- lodge houses
- lower houses
- manor houses
- molly houses
- movie houses
- music houses
- night houses
- opera houses
- panel houses
- paper houses
- plank houses
- power houses
- privy houses
- proof houses
- punch houses
- round houses
- royal houses
- share houses
- siege houses
- spite houses
- state houses
- steak houses
- stilt houses
- study houses
- sugar houses
- tower houses
- tract houses
- upper houses
- watch houses
- weigh houses
- Wendy houses
- wheel houses
- whore houses
- action houses
- animal houses
- basket houses
- booley houses
- bottle houses
- bounce houses
- bouncy houses
- coffee houses
- common houses
- congee houses
- conjee houses
- custom houses
- doll's houses
- dolls' houses
- double houses
- eating houses
- engine houses
- frater houses
- gaming houses
- garden houses
- houses of God
- insect houses
- johnny houses
- kutcha houses
- laithe houses
- little houses
- lockup houses
- mollie houses
- monkey houses
- narrow houses
- orphan houses
- oyster houses
- parish houses
- parlor houses
- picket houses
- Picts' houses
- prison houses
- public houses
- school houses
- spirit houses
- spring houses
- stroke houses
- summer houses
- Sunday houses
- tackle houses
Questions about houses
- What is houses the plural of?
- Houses is the plural of house.
- What part of speech is houses?
- Houses is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce houses?
- Houses is pronounced /ˈhaʊzɪz/.
Words near houses in the dictionary
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