different between house vs nativity

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

Etymology

From Middle English nativite, from Anglo-Norman nativite, Middle French nativite, and their source, Latin n?t?vit?s (“birth”). See also naïveté.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??t?v?ti/, /ne??t?v?ti/
• Rhymes: -?v?ti

Noun

nativity (countable and uncountable, plural nativities)

1. (now dated) Someone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth. [from 14th c.]
   • 1483, William Caxton, Prologue to The Golden Legend, The Holbein Society’s Fac-simile Reprints, London: The Holbein Society, 1878,^[1]

     […] me semeth to be a souerayn wele to Incyte & exhorte men & wymmen to kepe them from slouthe & ydlenesse & to lete to be vnderstonden to suche peple as been not lettered the natyuytees, lyues, the passyons, the myracles and the dethe of the holy saynts […]

   • c. 1589, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 4,^[2]

     I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows.

   • 1611, King James Version or the Bible, Ezekiel 16:4,^[3]

     And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

   • 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Prince of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, London: T. Johnstone, W. Taylor & J. Davies, 1790, Volume I, Chapter 22, p. 153,^[4]

     The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny; not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity.

   • 1922, Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, Chapter 1,^[5]

     Now when the greetings were done and the strains of the lutes and recorders sighed and lost themselves in the shadowy vault of the roof, the cup-bearers did fill great gems made in form of cups with ancient wine, and the Demons caroused to Lord Juss deep draughts in honour of this day of his nativity.

2. (astrology) Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth. [from 14th c.]
   • 1616, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Scene 19, edited by Israel Gollancz, London: J.M. Dent, 1897, p. 92,^[6]

     You stars that reign’d at my nativity,

     Whose influence hath allotted death and hell,

     Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist,

     Into the entrails of yon lab’ring clouds,

     That, when you vomit forth into the air,

     My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths,

     So that my soul may but ascend to heaven!

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt, J. Roberts, A. Dodd & J. Graves, p. 32,^[7]

     One Mischief always introduces another: These Terrors and Apprehensions of the People, led them into a Thousand weak, foolish, and wicked Things, which, they wanted not a Sort of People really wicked, to encourage them to; and this was running about to Fortune tellers, Cunning men, and Astrologers, to know their Fortune, or, as ’tis vulgarly express’d, to have their Fortunes told them, their Nativities calculated, and the like […]

   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter 13, Section 1,^[8]

     In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain a subsistence by practising on the credulity of women, pretending to cast nativities, to use the technical phrase; and many females who, proud of their rank and fortune, look down on the vulgar with sovereign contempt, show by this credulity, that the distinction is arbitrary, and that they have not sufficiently cultivated their minds to rise above vulgar prejudices.

   • 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering or The Astrologer, Volume I, Chapter 3,^[9]

     […] ‘my good old tutor […] instilled into me enough of knowledge for erecting a scheme of nativity, and therefore will I presently go about it.’

   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 313:

     Accordingly […] he was careful, as befitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, to note the exact nativity of his subjects whenever it could be discovered; in this way he hoped to make possible a scientific comparison of the course of human life with the astrological circumstances of its inception, and thus to arrive at a more exact astrology.

3. (also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus. [from 14th c.]
   • 1627, Francis Bacon, New Atlantis,^[10]

     […] towards the end of dinner […] there is an hymn sung, varied according to the invention of him that composeth it […] but the subject of it is (always) the praises of Adam and Noah and Abraham; whereof the former two peopled the world, and the last was the Father of the Faithful: concluding ever with a thanksgiving for the nativity of our Saviour, in whose birth the births of all are only blessed.

   • 1669, John Davenport, God’s Call to His People,^[11]

     Now we nowhere find warrant in Scripture for setting apart the day of Christ’s Nativity from common use to religious holy use.

4. (Christianity, also with capital initial) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas Day; the festival celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary or the birth of Saint John the Baptist. [from 12th c.]
   • 1559, “An Act for the uniformity of Common Prayer, and Service in the Church, and the administration of the Sacraments,” in William Keatinge Clay (ed.), Liturgical Services: Liturgies and occasional forms of prayer set forth in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Cambridge University Press, 1847, p. 27,^[12]

     Be it therefore enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that the said statute of repeal, and every thing therein contained […] shall be void and of none effect, from, and after the feast of the Nativity of S. John Baptist, next coming.

   • 1624, will of Edmond Heywood of the parish of Christchurch London, cited in Katharine Lee Bates, “A Conjecture as to Thomas Heywood’s Family,” The Journal of English and German Philology, Volume 12, 1913, p. 96,^[13]

     Alsoe I give to the poore of the parish of Christchurch The some of Sixe poundes to be disposed of in this sorte that is to saie, three poundes thereof in Bread on the daie of my funeralle and the other three poundes in bread alsoe on the feast of the Nativitie of our lord then next followinge […]

   • 1835, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Martin Franc and the Monk of St. Anthony,” Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, New York: Harper & Bros., Volume I, pp. 33-34,^[14]

     Occasionally, too, he ventured to bring her some ghostly present—such as a picture of the Madonna and child, or one of those little naked images which are hawked about the streets at the nativity.

   • 1894, Henry van Dyke, The Christ-Child in Art: A Study of Interpretation, New York: Harper & Brothers, p. 61,^[15]

     The earliest mention of the 25th of December as Christmas Day is found in an ancient catalogue of Church festivals about A.D. 354. And it is surprising to see with what alacrity the date was received and the Nativity celebrated throughout Christendom.

   • 1956, John A. Lamb, The Kalendar of The Book of Common Order, 1564-1644, p. 19,^[16]

     The edition of 1564 contains 23 festival days, the following being a list in Kalendar order. […] 24 June—Nativity of John Baptist; […] 8 Sept.—Nativity of Mary […]

5. (also with capital initial) A set of figurines used to create a nativity scene.
6. (figuratively) Origin; founding.
   • 1754, David Hume, Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, London: A. Millar, 3rd edition, Volume 4, Discourse 11, “Of the Protestant Succession,” p. 247,^[17]

     […] ’tis justly to be apprehended, that persecutions will put a speedy period to the Protestant religion in the place of its nativity.

   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Swiss Notes, 4. Stimulation of the Alps” in Essays and Criticisms, Boston: H.B. Turner, 1903, p. 264,^[18]

     There is a certain wine of France known in England in some gaseous disguise, but when drunk in the land of its nativity still as a pool, clean as river water, and as heady as verse.

7. Place of origin; place to which a species is native.
   • 1887, A. L. Slosson, “Personal Observations upon the Flora of Kansas,” Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science, Volume 11, p. 21,^[19]

     For a long time I believed the common yarrow to be introduced, as the country had been settled at least ten years before I saw it, but my belief in that is shaken, as I never sent for flowers by friends, when they went to an unknown region, but they inevitably brought yarrow. I have had it sent from Texas, Utah, Pike’s Peak and Long’s Peak, Colorado, and at last from the Alps and Germany; so its nativity is very uncertain.

   • 1900, Arthur Hewitt, “The Nickerson Collection at the Art Institute, Chicago,” in Brush and Pencil, Volume 7, p. 61,^[20]

     The specimens of crystals and other hard stones, which were worked both in India and China, the style determining their nativity, are equally choice.

8. The quality of being native or innate.
   • 1849, Hewett Cottrell Watson, Cybele Britannica, or British Plants and their Geographical Relations, London: Longman, Volume 2, p. 166,^[]

     Much difference of opinion has prevailed with reference to the genuine nativity of this species [Vinca minor] in Britain.

   • 1903, James H. Hyslop, “Binocular Vision and the Problem of Knowledge,” American Journal of Psychology, Volume 14, p. 312,^[21]

     The most important fact to note in Berkeley’s position is his argument to exclude the nativity of the visual perception of the third dimension.

Derived terms

• nativity play
• nativity scene

Related terms

• natal
• natality
• native

Translations

See also

• calvary