house

n.

building

home

1) to build, put up a house

2) to redecorate, refurbish, remodel, renovate a house

3) to demolish, raze, tear down a house

4) to rent a house from smb.

5) to let (BE), rent out (AE) a house to smb.

6) a dilapidated, ramshackle house

7) an apartment (AE); brick; clapboard; country; detached; frame; manor (esp. BE); one-family, single; prefabricated; ranch (AE); rooming; row (AE), terraced (BE); semidetached; summer; town house

8) a haunted house

9) (AE) a fraternity; sorority house

housekeeping

10) to keep house for smb.

theater

11) to bring the house down ('to win thunderous approval')

12) an empty; full, packed house (to play to a packed house)

13) an opera house

chamber of a parliament

14) a lower; upper house

firm

15) a banking; discount; gambling; mail-order; pharmaceutical; publishing house; slaughterhouse

place providing a public service

16) a boarding; halfway; safe; settlement house

bar

(BE)

17) a free; public; tied house

shelter

18) a reptile house (at a zoo)

misc.

19) a house of correction/detention ('a prison'); a disorderly house ('a brothel'); (AE) a station house ('a police station'); drinks are on the house ('drinks are served free'); an open house ('informal hospitality'); ('a residence being sold or rented out that is open for inspection')

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[haʊs]

brick

clapboard

country

detached

discount

frame

full

gambling

halfway

mail-order

one-family

pharmaceutical

prefabricated

public

publishing house

put up a house

ramshackle house

raze

refurbish

remodel

renovate a house

rent out (AE) a house to smb.

rooming

safe

semidetached

settlement house

single

slaughterhouse

sorority house

summer

tear down a house

tied house

town house

upper house

a disorderly house ('a brothel')

(AE) a station house ('a police station')

drinks are on the house ('drinks are served free')

an open house ('informal hospitality')

ranch (AE)

row (AE)

terraced (BE)

manor (esp. BE)

packed house (to play to a packed house)

(AE) a fraternity

['bar'] (BE) a free

['building'] ['home'] to build

['chamber of a parliament'] a lower

['firm'] a banking

['housekeeping'] to keep house for smb.

['place providing a public service'] a boarding

a dilapidated

a haunted house

an empty

an opera house

to demolish

to redecorate

to rent a house from smb.

['misc. '] a house of correction/detention ('a prison')

['theater'] to bring the house down ('to win thunderous approval')

an apartment (AE)

to let (BE)

['shelter'] a reptile house (at a zoo)