different between house vs land

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)

1. 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, […].
2. The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]

   • one that feared God with all his house

3. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
   1. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]

   2. 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.]

   3. (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.

4. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
5. A theatre.

6. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]

7. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]

8. (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  […].

9. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]

10. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
11. (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.

12. (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
13. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
14. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
15. Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
16. (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

17. (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
18. (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)

1. (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
2. (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
3. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
4. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

   • Where Saturn houses.

5. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
6. (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.

7. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
8. (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

9. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

10. (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.

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)

2. (music) House music.

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ou?s?]

Etymology 1

Noun

house n

1. gosling

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

house m anim

1. 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)

1. house music, house

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?u?s/, [?h?u?s?]
• Syllabification: hou?se

Noun

house (uncountable)

1. (music) house music, house

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aws/

Noun

house f (uncountable)

1. 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)

1. (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

1. Alternative form of hous

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English house, house music

Noun

house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. house music, house

Synonyms

• housemusikk

References

• “house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

house m

1. house music, house

Polish

Etymology

From English house music.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaws/

Noun

house m inan

1. 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

1. house music, house

   Synonym: música house

Spanish

Etymology

From English house music.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xaus/, [?xau?s]

Noun

house m (uncountable)

1. house music, house

Swedish

Etymology

From English house music

Noun

house c

1. house music, house

Declension

Synonyms

• housemusik, house-musik

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: l?nd, IPA^(key): /lænd/, [?e??nd]
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land? (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (l?do), from Proto-Slavic *l?da (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Noun

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

   Most insects live on land.

2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.

   There are 50 acres of land in this estate.

3. A country or region.

   They come from a faraway land.

4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

   wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes

6. (often in combination) realm, domain.

   I'm going to Disneyland.

   Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.

7. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
8. (Irish English, colloquial) A shock or fright.

   He got an awful land when the police arrived.

9. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
10. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
    • 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record (page 72)

      Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.

11. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

    Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.

12. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
13. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

14. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
    1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
15. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

   The plane is about to land.

2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
   • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:

     10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.

3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
4. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
5. (transitive) To bring to land.

   It can be tricky to land a helicopter.

   Use the net to land the fish.
6. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
7. (transitive) To deliver. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

   Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English hland.

Noun

land (uncountable)

1. lant; urine

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]

Noun

land (plural lande)

1. country; nation

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan?/, [lan?]
• Rhymes: -and

Etymology 1

From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, cognate with English land, German Land.

Noun

land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)

1. country (a geographical area that is politically independent)

   Synonyms: stat, nation

2. (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
3. land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
4. (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise

Usage notes

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

land

1. imperative of lande

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nt/
• Hyphenation: land
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

1. land; country
2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: land
• ? Sranan Tongo: lanti

Etymology 2

Verb

land

1. first-person singular present indicative of landen
2. imperative of landen

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

Noun

land n

1. country; nation

Declension

Faroese

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

1. land
2. coast
3. country, nation
4. ground, soil
5. the state

Declension

Related terms

• landa

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?, from Proto-Indo-European *kl?n- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

1. (uncountable) urine

Declension

Gothic

Romanization

land

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

1. (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
2. (countable) country

3. (uncountable) countryside, country

4. (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
5. (countable) tracts of land, an estate

Declension

Derived terms

Middle English

Noun

land

1. Alternative form of lond

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n?/
• Rhymes: -?n?

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)

1. country
2. land

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

land

1. imperative of lande

References

• “land” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n?/, /l?nd/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

1. country

   Noreg er eit land i nord.

   Norway is a country in the north.

2. land

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

1. urine from livestock

References

• “land” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.

Noun

land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

1. land
   • 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.

     Mæth logh skal land byggæs.

     With law shall land be built.

Declension

Descendants

• Danish: land

Old English

Alternative forms

• lond, lænd

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant (Dutch land), Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nd/

Noun

land n

1. land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
2. a country
3. region within a country: district, province
4. the country, countryside
5. owned or tilled land, an estate

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• belandian (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
• belendan (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
• ?elandian (“to land, to become land”)
• ?elendan (“to near, land, or come into lands as wealth”)
• lendan (“to come to land”)

Descendants

• Middle English: lond
  • English: land
  • Scots: laund, land
  • Yola: lhoan, lone

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “land”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Irish

Noun

land ?

1. Alternative spelling of lann

Mutation

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic ???????????????? (land).

Noun

land n (genitive lands, plural l?nd)

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: land
• Faroese: land
• Norn: land
• Norwegian: land
• Old Swedish: land
  • Elfdalian: land
  • Swedish: land
• Old Danish: land
  • Danish: land
• Scanian: lann
• Gutnish: land, lande, landi

References

• land inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nd/

Noun

land n

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: lant
  • Dutch Low Saxon: laand
  • German Low German: Land
    • Plautdietsch: Launt

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.

Noun

land n

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Elfdalian: land
• Swedish: land

Polish

Etymology

From German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/

Noun

land m inan

1. Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
2. (Pozna?) countryside (rural area)

   Synonyms: prowincja, wie?

Declension

Further reading

• land in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• land in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From German Land

Noun

land n (plural landuri)

1. land (German and Austrian province)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From German Land.

Noun

land m (plural lands)

1. one of the federal states of Germany

Further reading

• “land” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /land/, [l?an??d?], (colloquial) /lan/
• Rhymes: -and

Noun

land n

1. a land, a country, a nation, a state
2. (uncountable) land, ground, earth, territory; as opposed to sea or air

3. (uncountable) land, countryside, earth, ground suitable for farming; as opposed to towns and cities

4. a garden plot, short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground for growing vegetables, flowers, etc.

Declension

Synonyms

• (country): nation
• (neither sea nor air): backe, landbacke, mark
• (ground suitable for farming): mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)

Derived terms

References

• land in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Zealandic

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lant

Noun

land n (plural [please provide])

1. land