HOUSE
What does "HOUSE" mean?
A building made for people to live in; a dwelling.
Meanings
- A building for human habitation, typically for one family. They bought a small house with a garden out back.
- To provide accommodation or storage for; to contain. The wing now houses the museum's modern collection.
- A legislative or governing body, or a noble or royal family line. The bill passed the lower house by a wide margin.
- A genre of electronic dance music with a steady four-on-the-floor beat. The DJ played deep house until sunrise.
- An audience or the theatre holding it. The show played to a packed house.
Did you know?
- House music is named after a building: the Warehouse, a Chicago club where DJ Frankie Knuckles helped birth the sound in the early 1980s.
Word origin
From Old English 'hus', a dwelling, from Proto-Germanic '*husa-'; cognate with German 'Haus'. The music genre is named for Chicago's Warehouse club, where the style emerged in the early 1980s.
Remember it
HOUSE hides 'US' in the middle - a house is the walls that hold US together.
A little poem
Four walls and a roof-
but the kettle, the worn stair,
the voice down the hall.
haiku
Wordplay
- A house is just a building until someone hides 'us' inside it - then it changes its name to home.
What it teaches
A house is built of walls; a home is built of who you let inside them.
Quick facts
What does HOUSE mean?
A building made for people to live in; a dwelling.
Is HOUSE a valid word?
Yes — HOUSE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is HOUSE?
HOUSE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does HOUSE come from?
From Old English 'hus', a dwelling, from Proto-Germanic '*husa-'; cognate with German 'Haus'. The music genre is named for Chicago's Warehouse club, where the style emerged in the early 1980s.
What can HOUSE teach us?
A house is built of walls; a home is built of who you let inside them.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.