house

n

1. dwelling, residence, home, abode, homestead, household; domicile, dwelling house, lodgings, quarters, Chiefly Brit. Inf. diggings or digs; mansion, castle, palace, manor house; villa, chateau, chalet, country seat, hall; hacienda, plantation, farmstead, grange; townhouse, condominium, suite, apartment house, apartment, Inf. pad, tenement, flat, Chiefly Brit. maisonette; inn, hotel, motel, hostelry, hospice; cabin, cottage, bower, log house, bungalow, hut, shanty, shack, lean-to, hovel.

2. household, home, family circle, domestic establishment, mdnage, home roof, homestead; hearth, chimney corner, Brit. Dial. ingleside, Chiefly Brit. inglenook; fraternity, fraternity members.

3. family, family tree, lineage, kindred, ancestors; ancestry, derivation, extraction, pedigree, descent; blood, race, strain, stock, root, people; clan, Rom. Hist., Anthropol. gens, Irish., Anthropol. sept; nation, dynasty.

4. public building, theater, concert hall, auditorium; church, temple, synagogue.

5. congregation, audience, listeners, spectators, public, gathering, assembly.

6. legislative body, advisory or deliberative group, congress, council assembly, legislature, (in Anglo-Saxon England) gemot; lower chamber, Commons; (of a legislative body) quorum.

7. business firm, commercial establishment, company, stock, business, corporation; partnership, copartnership; shop, store; enterprise, undertaking.

v

8. lodge, quarter, furnish with housing, enclose, board, put up, billet, bed, roof; dwell, reside, abide, remain, continue, live; room, bunk, tenant.

9. shelter, harbor, take in, befriend, care for, maintain, sustain, foster.

10. accommodate, contain, have room for, have capacity for, have space for.

11. remove from exposure, safeguard, secure, make fast, preserve; guard, shield, encase, sheathe; protect, look after, tend.