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Synonyms for house

Most common

home family door household shop monastery convent edifice

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

1. Put up — to admit to residence; to harbor

put up, host, accommodate, harbor dated US, harbour UK

Definitions

  1. n. 1

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

    This is my house and my family's ancestral home.

  2. n. 2

    A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. An apartment building within a public housing estate.

  3. v. 1

    To admit to residence; to harbor.

Forms

Plural
houses → homes, families, households, residences…
Past participle
housed
e.g. housed → hosted, accommodated, harbored, lodged…

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A tenement may be detached by itself, or it may be part of a house divided off for the use of a family.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example sentences

  • home You can get in touch with him at his home tonight.
  • family You'd better go to see your family doctor at once.
  • door It is very careless of you to leave the door open.
  • household Our household expense got into the red last month.
  • shop Can you tell me where the nearest antique shop is?
  • monastery I'd rather live in a monastery with Internet access.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
houserising
homerising
familyrising
doorrising
householdsteady
shopsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
home1, door1, race1, sign1, shop1, firm1, host1
5 letters
store1, tribe1, lodge1, abode2, manse
6 letters
family3, harbor2, bestow2, menage
7 letters
company3, concern2, theatre3, theater3, shelter2, mansion2, harbour2, dynasty3, lineage3, convent2, kindred2, edifice3, enclose2
8 letters
building2, dwelling2, ancestry3, domicile
9 letters
household2, residence3, monastery4
10 letters
habitation4
11 letters
partnership3, accommodate4, domiciliate

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (abode2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
maison
Italiano
casa
Español
casa
Deutsch
Haus