House vs. Bungalow

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A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

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The people who live in a house; a household.

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A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).

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A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.

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A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.

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The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

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(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.

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A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.

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(metaphorical) a place of rest or repose.

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A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.

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An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.

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(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

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(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.

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A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

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(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

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Lotto; bingo.

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(uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

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A small stand of trees in a swamp.

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(music genre) House music.

Houseverb

(transitive) To keep within a structure or container.

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(transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.

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To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.

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To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

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(transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.

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(obsolete) To drive to a shelter.

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(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

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(nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

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A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.

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Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.

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Those who dwell in the same house; a household.

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A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.

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One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.

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A firm, or commercial establishment.

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A public house; an inn; a hotel.

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A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.

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A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

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An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.

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The body, as the habitation of the soul.

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The grave.

Houseverb

To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.

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To drive to a shelter.

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To admit to residence; to harbor.

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To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

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To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.

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To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.

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To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8.

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a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families;

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an official assembly having legislative powers;

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a building in which something is sheltered or located;

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a social unit living together;

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a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented;

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members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments;

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aristocratic family line;

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the members of a religious community living together

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the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema;

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play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults;

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

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the management of a gambling house or casino;

Houseverb

contain or cover;

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provide housing for;

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a building for human habitation, especially one that consists of a ground floor and one or more upper storeys

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the people living in a house; a household

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a noble, royal, or wealthy family or lineage; a dynasty

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a dwelling that is one of several in a building.

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a building in which animals live or in which things are kept

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a building in which people meet for a particular activity

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a firm or institution

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the Stock Exchange.

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a restaurant or inn

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a brothel.

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a theatre

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a performance in a theatre or cinema

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a religious community that occupies a particular building

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a residential building for pupils at a boarding school

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each of a number of groups into which pupils at a day school are divided for games or competition.

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a college of a university.

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a legislative or deliberative assembly

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(in the UK) the House of Commons or Lords; (in the US) the House of Representatives

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used in formal debates that mimic the procedures of a legislative assembly

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a style of electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals and a fast beat

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a twelfth division of the celestial sphere, based on the positions of the ascendant and midheaven at a given time and place, and determined by any of a number of methods.

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a twelfth division of the celestial sphere represented as a sector on an astrological chart, used in allocating elements of character and circumstance to different spheres of human life.

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old-fashioned term for bingo

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used by a bingo player to announce that they have won.

Houseadjective

(of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.

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relating to a firm, institution, or society

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(of a band or group) resident or regularly performing in a club or other venue

Houseverb

provide with shelter or accommodation

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provide space for; contain or accommodate

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fix (something) in a socket or mortise.

House

A house is a single-unit residential building, which may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space.

Bungalownoun

A small house or cottage usually having a single story

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A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide verandah

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A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.

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a small house with a single story

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a low house having only one storey or, in some cases, upper rooms set in the roof, typically with dormer windows.

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(in SE Asia) a large detached house with more than one storey.

Bungalow

A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is either single-storey or has a second storey built into a sloping roof (usually with dormer windows), and may be surrounded by wide verandas.The first house in England that was classified as a bungalow was built in 1869. In America it was initially used as a vacation architecture, and was most popular between 1900 and 1918, especially with the Arts and Crafts movement.