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house
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English h?s (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-Germanic *h?s? (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, Low German Huus, German Haus, Danish hus, Norwegian Bokmål hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Compare also Northern Luri ???? (höš, “house, home”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.
The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply h?s.)
Alternative forms
- howse (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: hous, IPA(key): /ha?s/
- (Canada, Virginia) IPA(key): /h??s/
- Rhymes: -a?s
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. [from 9th c.]
- The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them, […].
- The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]
- one that feared God with all his house
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.[from 10th c.]
- (historical) A workhouse.
- 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners (volume 29, page 169)
- To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work.
- 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners (volume 29, page 169)
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
- A theatre.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]
- (figuratively) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
- 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour
- Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.
- 1815, Walter Scott, The Lord of the Isles
- Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […].
- 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p.313:
- Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p.313:
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
- Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
Synonyms
- (establishment): shop
- (company or organisation): shop
Hypernyms
- building
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Nigerian Pidgin: haus
- Tok Pisin: haus
- Sranan Tongo: oso
- ? Dutch: osso
Translations
See house/translations § Noun.
Further reading
- house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- house (astrology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- house (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English housen, from Old English h?sian, from Proto-Germanic *h?s?n? (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: houz, IPA(key): /ha?z/
- Rhymes: -a?s, -a?z
- Homophone: how's (verb)
Verb
house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- Where Saturn houses.
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
- (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
- Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre
- 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat.
- 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
- All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.
- 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
Synonyms
- (keep within a structure or container): store
- (admit to residence): accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up
- (contain or enclose mechanical parts): enclose
Translations
Etymology 3
Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.
Noun
house (uncountable)
- (music) House music.
Translations
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ou?s?]
Etymology 1
Noun
house n
- gosling
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
house m anim
- house music, house
Further reading
- house in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- house in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
house m (uncountable)
- house music, house
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?u?s/, [?h?u?s?]
- Syllabification: hou?se
Noun
house (uncountable)
- (music) house music, house
Declension
French
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /aws/
Noun
house f (uncountable)
- house music, house (genre of music)
Synonyms
- house music
Anagrams
- houes, houés
Hungarian
Etymology
From English house.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?h?uz]
- Hyphenation: house
- Rhymes: -uz
Noun
house (plural house-ok)
- (music) house, house music (type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)
Declension
Derived terms
- house-parti
- house-zene
References
Middle English
Noun
house
- Alternative form of hous
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English house, house music
Noun
house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)
- house music, house
Synonyms
- housemusikk
References
- “house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
house m
- house music, house
Polish
Etymology
From English house music.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xaws/
Noun
house m inan
- house, house music
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjectives) house'owy, housowy
Further reading
- house in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- house in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From English house music
Noun
house m
- house music, house
- Synonym: música house
Spanish
Etymology
From English house music.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xaus/, [?xau?s]
Noun
house m (uncountable)
- house music, house
Swedish
Etymology
From English house music
Noun
house c
- house music, house
Declension
Synonyms
- housemusik, house-musik
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group
English
Alternative forms
- groop (non-standard)
- groupe (obsolete)
Etymology
From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”), Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”), Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.
Pronunciation
- enPR: gro?op, IPA(key): /??u?p/
- Rhymes: -u?p
Noun
group (plural groups)
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192,
- Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.
- 1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112,
- In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).
- 2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277,
- In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).
- 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192,
- (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- (chemistry) A functional group.
- (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
- (military) An air force formation.
- (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
- (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (business) A commercial organization.
Synonyms
- (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other): collection, set
- (people who perform music together): band, ensemble
- See also Thesaurus:group
Hypernyms
- (in group theory): monoid
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- subgroup
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ?????
- ? Japanese: ???? (gur?pu)
- ? Korean: ?? (geurup)
- ? Tongan: kulupu
Translations
References
- group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)
- (transitive) To put together to form a group.
- group the dogs by hair colour
- (intransitive) To come together to form a group.
Synonyms
- (put together to form a group): amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
- (come together to form a group): assemble, begather, foregather, throng; see also Thesaurus:assemble
Translations
Further reading
- group in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- group in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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