house
a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
How often you will meet it
Rank 146 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 163,250 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.078% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families he has a house on Cape Codshe felt she had to get out of the house
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments also: firm, business firm he worked for a brokerage house
- the members of a religious community living together
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema the house applaudedhe counted the house
- an official assembly having legislative powers a bicameral legislature has two houses
- aristocratic family line the House of York
house in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Gloria's gaze dwelt on the house across the wide street.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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No, he could not have gone to her house party--how could he?
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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I was promised two pupils if I would take a house somewhere on this coast.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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Their door burst open with a violence that shook the house from top to bottom.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know · Hamilton Wright [Editor] Mabie · Chapter 1
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As he spoke the last words, we drew up in front of the fine old house.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1