house

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A building where one or more people live.

   They have a house on Cape Cod.

2. 2
   noun

   A building used to shelter or store something.

   They kept the carriages in a large carriage house.

3. 3
   noun

   A group of people who make laws together.

   A bicameral legislature has two houses.

4. 4
   noun

   A company or business, especially one in a particular field.

   They worked for a respected publishing house.

5. 5
   noun

   The audience in a theatre or cinema, or the building itself.

   The play drew a full house every night.

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Simplified etymology

House is an Old English word related to Dutch huis and German Haus. Their ancient ancestor may have come from a root meaning “to hide,” perhaps also preserved in huddle.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Middle English hous English house From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). More at hose. Eclipsed non-native Middle English mees, meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman mes, mies, meis, maisun (“house”). The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old En…

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