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Nouns (22)

house

n. an official assembly having legislative powers; "a bicameral legislature has two houses"

house

n. the members of a religious community living together

house

n. the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema; "the house applauded"; "he counted the house"

house

n. the management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet"

house

n. aristocratic family line; "the House of York"

house

n. a variety of lotto or bingo

house

n. an area enclosed by a circle

house

n. a variety of lotto or bingo played with paper and pencil, esp. by soldiers as a gambling game

house

n. a building in which something is sheltered or located; "they had a large carriage house"

house

n. play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults; "the children were playing house"

theater, theatre, house

n. a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented; "the house was full"

firm, house, business firm

n. the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house"

sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house

n. (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

Verbs (4)

house

v. contain or cover; "This box houses the gears"

house, put up, domiciliate

v. provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"

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Fuzzynyms (127)

council

n. a meeting of people for consultation; "emergency council"

house

n. the management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet"

chamber

n. a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"

congress

n. a national legislative assembly

council

n. a meeting of people for consultation; "emergency council"

house

n. an official assembly having legislative powers; "a bicameral legislature has two houses"

kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

n. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

hearth, fireside

n. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"

tribe, folk

n. a social division of (usually preliterate) people

multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed

n. the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"

people

n. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

race

n. people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"

brood

n. the young of an animal cared for at one time

return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff

n. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%"

home, place

n. where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?"

domestic, domestic help, house servant

n. a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household

relations, dealings

n. mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

descendants, posterity

n. all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"

family, family unit

n. primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"

kin, kinsperson, family

n. a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

dynasty

n. a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family

sanctuary

n. a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept

environs, purlieu

n. an outer adjacent area of any place

institution

n. a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; "the institution of marriage"; "the institution of slavery"; "he had become an institution in the theater"

hideaway, retreat

n. an area where you can be alone

lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

n. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

manor, manor house

n. the mansion of a lord or wealthy person

room

n. an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"

mobile home, manufactured home

n. a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing

address

n. the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with

sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house

n. (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

residence, abode

n. any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a person can have several residences"

amphitheater, amphitheatre

n. a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater)

stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium

n. a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

mise en scene, stage setting, setting

n. arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

auditorium

n. the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits

amphitheater, amphitheatre, coliseum

n. an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held

playhouse, wendy house

n. plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of

scenery, scene

n. the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale; "they worked all night painting the scenery"

site, land site

n. the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"

address

n. the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with

house

n. a building in which something is sheltered or located; "they had a large carriage house"

quarter, billet, canton

v. provide housing for (military personnel)

station, post, send, place

v. assign to a station

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