house

See also:House

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European*(s)kewH-?

Proto-Indo-European*-s?

Proto-Germanic*hūsą

Proto-West Germanic*hūs

Old Englishhūs

Middle Englishhous

Englishhouse

Wikidatahas aLexemerelated to:

house (L512)

FromMiddle Englishhous,hus,fromOld Englishhūs(“dwelling, shelter, house”),fromProto-West Germanic*hūs,fromProto-Germanic*hūsą(compareScotshoose,West Frisianhûs,Dutchhuis,GermanHaus,German Low GermanHuus,Danishhus,Faroesehús,Icelandichús,Norwegian Bokmålhus,Norwegian NynorskhusandSwedishhus), possibly fromProto-Indo-European*(s)kews-,from*(s)kewH-(“to cover, hide”).Eclipsed non-nativeMiddle Englishmeson,measoun(“house”),borrowed fromOld Frenchmaison(“house”).More athose.

The uncommon plural formhousenis fromMiddle Englishhusen,housen.(The Old English nominative plural was simplyhūs.)

Alternative forms

howse(obsolete)

Pronunciation

enPR:hous,IPA^(key):/haʊs/
(Canada,Virginia,Scotland)IPA^(key):/hʌʊs/
(Geordie)IPA^(key):/huːs/
(Ireland)IPA^(key):/hæʊs/,/haʊs/
- (Local Dublin)IPA^(key):/hæʊs/,/hɛʊs/
- (Ulster)IPA^(key):/hɐʏs/,/hɛʉs/
- (Munster)IPA^(key):/hɐʊs/,/hʌʊs/
Audio(US): (file)
Audio(UK): (file)
Audio(Canada): (file)
Rhymes:-aʊs

Noun

house(countableanduncountable,pluralhousesor(dialectal)housenor(chiefly humorous)hice)

A structure built or serving as anabodeof human beings.[from 9th c.]
This is myhouseand my family's ancestral home.
- 1909,Archibald Marshall[pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, inThe Squire’s Daughter,New York, N.Y.:Dodd, Mead and Company,published1919,→OCLC:
  The bighouses,and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,[…].
- 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln,chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients,New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
  Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…].It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashionedhouse,with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas thehouseI'd seen the roof of from the beach.
1. (Hong Kong,only used in names)Anapartment buildingwithin apublic housing estate.
A container; a thing which houses another.
- 1892,Ella Eaton Kellogg,“Foods”, inScience in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes‎^[1],Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company,page25:
  The purposes of food are to promote growth, to supply force and heat, and to furnish material to repair the waste which is constantly taking place in the body. Every breath, every thought, every motion, wears out some portion of the delicate and wonderfulhousein which we live.
(uncountable)Size and quality of residential accommodations;housing.
- 2007November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, inNewsweek:
  Those homeowners who bought too muchhouse,or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.
A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to anapartmentorcondominiumor building containing these.
Coordinate terms:apartment,condo,condominium,flat
The people who live in a house; ahousehold.[from 9th c.]
- 1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Acts 10:2:
  one that feared God with all hishouse
Abuildingused for something other than aresidence(typically with qualifying word).[from 10th c.]
The former carriagehousehad been made over into a guesthouse.

On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for themonkeyhouse.
2. A place ofbusiness;a company or organisation, especially aprinting press,apublishingcompany, or acouturier.[from 10th c.]
  A small publishinghousewould have a contract with an independent fulfillmenthouse.
  - 1855December –1857June, Charles Dickens,Little Dorrit,London:Bradbury and Evans,[…],published1857,→OCLC:
    I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon thehouseuntil the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
4. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially apublic house,aninn,arestaurant,atheatre,or acasino;or the management thereof.[from 10th c.]
  One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of thehouse,I'm afraid.
  
  Thehousealways wins.
  - 1964,“Northwest Ohio Quarterly”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name),volume36,page185:
    The farce comedy which followed,When We're Marriedby Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation. The production filled thehouse.
  - 1977August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, inGay Community News,volume 5, number 8, page 9:
    Frazier and Gary worked for me for free — for six months — they didn't take any money from thehouse.They worked for tips.
5. (historical)Aworkhouse.
  - 1834,Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,Reports from the Commissioners,volume29,page169:
    To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to thehousehe would look out for work.
The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.[from 10th c.]
After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in thehouse.
- 1904–1905,Baroness Orczy [i.e.,Emma Orczy], chapter2,inThe Case of Miss Elliott,London:T[homas] Fisher Unwin,published1905,→OCLC;republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909,OCLC 11192831,quoted inThe Case of Miss Elliott(ebook no. 2000141h.html),Australia:Project Gutenberg of Australia,February 2020:
  Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down thehouse,and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
(politics)A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of alegislature.[from 10th c.]
The petition was so ridiculous that thehouserejected it after minimal debate.
A dynasty; a family with itsancestorsanddescendants,especially a royal or noble one.[from 10th c.]
A curse lay upon theHouseof Atreus.
(figurative)A place ofrestorrepose.[from 9th c.]
- 1598,Beniamin Ionson [i.e.,Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie.[…]”,inThe Workes of Beniamin Ionson(First Folio), London:[…]Will[iam]Stansby,published1616,→OCLC,(please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  Like a pestilence, it doth infect / Thehousesof the brain.
- 1815,Walter Scott,“(please specify the page)”,inThe Lord of the Isles, a Poem,Edinburgh:[…][F]orArchibald Constable and Co.[…];London:Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown;byJames Ballantyne and Co.,[…],→OCLC:
  Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peacefulhouseof death[…].
Agroupingofschoolchildrenfor the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.[from 19th c.]
I was a member of Spenserhousewhen I was at school.
Ananimal'sshelterorden,or the shell of an animal such as asnail,used for protection.[from 10th c.]
(astrology)One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.[from 14th c.]
- 1971,Sir Keith Vivian Thomas,Religion and the Decline of Magic,The Folio Society,published2012,→ISBN,page313:
  Since there was a limited number of planets,housesand signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.
(cartomancy)The fourthLenormandcard.
(chess,nowrare)Asquareon achessboard,regarded as the proper place of apiece.[from 16th c.]
(curling)The fourconcentriccircles where points are scored on theice.[from 19th c.]
Lotto;bingo.[from 20th c.]
(uncountable)Achildren'sgamein which the playerspretendto be members of ahousehold.
As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to playhouse.
(US,dialect)A smallstandoftreesin aswamp.
(sudoku)A set of cells in asudokupuzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.

Synonyms

(establishment):shop
(company or organisation):shop

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Chinese Pidgin English:houso
Nigerian Pidgin:haus
Tok Pisin:haus
Sranan Tongo:oso
- →Dutch:osso
→Cantonese:house(hau¹si²)
→Japanese:ハウス(hausu)

Translations

Seehouse/translations § Noun.

Etymology 2

Wikidatahas aLexemerelated to:

house (L23571)

FromMiddle Englishhousen,fromOld Englishhūsian,fromProto-Germanic*hūsōną(“to house, live, dwell”),from the noun (see above). CompareDutchhuizen(“to live, dwell, reside”),German Low Germanhusen(“to live, dwell, reside”),Germanhausen(“to live, dwell, reside”),Norwegian Nynorskhusa(“to house”),Faroesehúsa(“to house”),Icelandichúsa(“to shelter, house”).

Pronunciation

enPR:houz,IPA^(key):/haʊz/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-aʊs,-aʊz
Homophone:how's

Verb

house(third-person singular simple presenthouses,present participlehousing,simple past and past participlehoused)

(transitive)Tokeepwithin a structure or container.
The car ishousedin the garage.
- 1669,John Evelyn,“Kalendarium Hortense: Or The Gard’ners Almanac;[…][November.]”,inSylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions.[…],3rd edition, London:[…]Jo[hn]Martyn,and Ja[mes]Allestry, printers to theRoyal Society,→OCLC,page29:
  Houſeyour choiceſtCarnations,or rather ſet them under aPent-houſeagainſt a South-wall, ſo as a covering being thrown over them to preſerve them in extremity ofweather,they may yet enjoy the freerairat all other times.
- 1961November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, inTrains Illustrated,page646:
  Now, covered concrete troughs tohousethe cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
(transitive)To admit to residence; toharbor.
- c.1580(date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e.,Philip Sidney], “[The First Booke]Chapter 1”, in [Fulke Greville;Matthew Gwinne;John Florio], editors,The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia[The New Arcadia], London:[…][John Windet] forWilliam Ponsonbie,published1590,→OCLC,folio 41, recto:
  Palladius wished him [...] tohouseall the Helots.
To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- c.1591–1595(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene v]:
  You shall nothousewith me.
- 1996October 5,Robert Whymant,“Tokyo tries to calm islands row”, inThe Times‎^[2],→ISSN,→OCLC,Overseas News,page15,column 2:
  The federation yesterday vowed to occupy Uotsuri, one of the islands, and build a permanent structure tohousesix members.
(transitive,astrology)To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- 1697,Virgil,“The First Book of theGeorgics”,inJohn Dryden,transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…],London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
  Where Saturnhouses.
(transitive)To contain or cover mechanical parts.
(transitive)To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
The joists werehousedinto the side walls, rather than being hung from them.
(obsolete)To drive to a shelter.
- c.1594(date written),William Shakespeare,“The Comedie of Errors”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene i]:
  Euen now wehous'dhim in the Abbey heere
(obsolete)To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- 1636,G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”,inA Paraphrase upon thePsalmes of David.And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments,London:[Andrew Hebb[…]],→OCLC:
  Oh! can your counsel his despair defer, Who now ishousedin his sepulchre
(nautical)Tostowin a safe place; to take down and make safe.
tohousethe upper spars
(Canada,US,slang,transitive)Toeat;especially, toscarf down.
- 2019,Joe Lawson,Shameless(series 10,episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way" )
  All you wanna do is drink a fifth,housea lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.

Synonyms

(keep within a structure or container):store
(admit to residence):accommodate,harbor/harbour,host,put up
(contain or enclose mechanical parts):enclose

Derived terms

Translations

keep within a structure or container

Asturian:atroxar,almacenar
Bulgarian:помещавам(pomeštavam)
Danish:indhuse
French:garer(fr),loger(fr)
Galician:almacenar(gl)
Italian:collocare(it)
Macedonian:сместува(smestuva)
Portuguese:armazenar(pt)
Russian:вмеща́ть(ru)(vmeščátʹ)
Spanish:almacenar(es)
Swahili:nyumba(sw)
Turkish:barındırmak(tr)

admit to residence

Asturian:aposentar,agospedar,agospiar,acoller
Catalan:allotjar(ca)
Dutch:onderbrengen(nl)
Esperanto:loĝigi
French:héberger(fr),abriter(fr),loger(fr)
Galician:albergar(gl),aloxar(gl)
German:unterbringen(de),beherbergen(de)
Ido:lojigar(io)
Italian:alloggiare(it)
Macedonian:вдомува(vdomuva),сместува(smestuva)
Portuguese:alojar(pt),hospedar(pt)
Russian:помеща́ть(ru)(pomeščátʹ),сели́ть(ru)(selítʹ)
Spanish:alojar(es),hospedar(es),albergar(es)

take shelter

Asturian:atechar,abellugar
Bulgarian:подслонявам се(podslonjavam se)
Galician:albergar(gl)
Maori:whakawhare

dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses

Swahili:nyumba(sw)

contain or enclose mechanical parts

Etymology 3

Probably fromThe Warehouse,anightclubinChicago,Illinois,USA, where the music became popular around 1985.

Pronunciation

enPR:hous,IPA^(key):/haʊs/

Noun

house(uncountable)

(music)House music.
- 1998,Colin Larkin,The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music,London:Virgin Books,→ISBN,page73:
  […]their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is byhouseand techno pioneers.
- 2001March,Philip Sherburne,“Exos,Strength[album review]”,inCMJ New Music Monthly,number91,Great Neck, N.Y.:College Media,→ISSN,page66:
  And while hard, minimaltechnohas become increasingly influenced byhouseandOval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school onStrength,infusing his own style with the force of hard techno puristsSurgeonand Oliver Ho.
- 2006,Mark Jonathan Butler,Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music,Bloomington, Ind.:Indiana University Press,→ISBN,page45:
  The first genre of American dance music to become popular in the United Kingdom was Chicagohouse.Although music from Detroit was soon imported as well, it was often treated as subcategory ofhouse,and for many years the most common English term for electronic dance music in general was "house"or" acidhouse".[…]During the formative years of techno andhouse,the musicians involved interacted in various ways.

Descendants

→Belarusian:гаўс(haŭs)
→Bulgarian:хаус(haus)
→Catalan:house
→⇒Chinese:Hạo thất âm nhạc／Hạo thất âm nhạc(hàoshì yīnyuè)
→Czech:house
→Danish:house
→Dutch:house
→Esperanto:haŭzo
→Estonian:house
→Finnish:house
→French:house
→Galician:house
→Georgian:ჰაუსი(hausi)
→German:House
→Greek:χάουζ(cháouz)
→Hungarian:house
→Icelandic:house
→Indonesian:house
→Italian:house
→Japanese:ハウス(hausu)
→Korean:하우스(hauseu)
→Latvian:hauss
→Lithuanian:house
→Lombard:house
→Norwegian Bokmål:house
→Norwegian Nynorsk:house
→Occitan:house
→Polish:house
→Portuguese:house
→Quechua:house
→Romanian:house
→Russian:ха́ус(xáus)
→Serbo-Croatian:хауз,house
→Slovak:house
→Slovene:house
→Spanish:house
→Swedish:house
→Turkish:house
→Ukrainian:хауз(xauz)
→Welsh:House
→West Frisian:house

Translations

genre of music—seehouse music

Chinese

Etymology

FromEnglishhouse.

Pronunciation

Cantonese(Jyutping):hau¹si²

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese,Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping:hau¹si²
  - Yale:hāu sí
  - Cantonese Pinyin:hau¹si²
  - Guangdong Romanization:heo¹xi²
  - SinologicalIPA^(key):/hɐu̯⁵⁵siː³⁵/

Noun

house

(Hong Kong Cantonese)mansion;largehouse(Classifier:Gian／Gianc)

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):[ˈɦou̯sɛ]

Etymology 1

Noun

housen

gosling

Declension

Declension ofhouse(t-stem neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	house	housata
genitive	housete	housat
dative	houseti	housatům
accusative	house	housata
vocative	house	housata
locative	houseti	housatech
instrumental	housetem	housaty

Etymology 2

Noun

houseminan

house music,house (a genre of music)

Declension

Declension ofhouse(hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	house	housy
genitive	housu	housů
dative	housu	housům
accusative	house	housy
vocative	house	housy
locative	housu	housech
instrumental	housem	housy

Dutch

Etymology

FromEnglishhouse.Doubletofhuisandosso.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

housem(uncountable)

house music,house (a genre of music)

Finnish

Etymology

FromEnglishhouse.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):/ˈhɑu̯s/,[ˈhɑ̝u̯s̠]
Syllabification^(key):hou‧se

Noun

house(uncountable)

(music)house music,house(a genre of music)

Declension

Inflectionofhouse(Kotustype 8/nalle,no gradation)
nominative		house	—
genitive		housen	—
partitive		housea	—
illative		houseen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		house	—
accusative	nom.	house	—
accusative	gen.	housen	—
genitive		housen	—
partitive		housea	—
inessive		housessa	—
elative		housesta	—
illative		houseen	—
adessive		housella	—
ablative		houselta	—
allative		houselle	—
essive		housena	—
translative		houseksi	—
abessive		housetta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive formsofhouse(Kotustype 8/nalle,no gradation)

first-person singular possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		houseni	—
accusative	nom.	houseni	—
accusative	gen.	houseni	—
genitive		houseni	—
partitive		houseani	—
inessive		housessani	—
elative		housestani	—
illative		houseeni	—
adessive		housellani	—
ablative		houseltani	—
allative		houselleni	—
essive		housenani	—
translative		housekseni	—
abessive		housettani	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	—

second-person singular possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		housesi	—
accusative	nom.	housesi	—
accusative	gen.	housesi	—
genitive		housesi	—
partitive		houseasi	—
inessive		housessasi	—
elative		housestasi	—
illative		houseesi	—
adessive		housellasi	—
ablative		houseltasi	—
allative		housellesi	—
essive		housenasi	—
translative		houseksesi	—
abessive		housettasi	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	—

first-person plural possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		housemme	—
accusative	nom.	housemme	—
accusative	gen.	housemme	—
genitive		housemme	—
partitive		houseamme	—
inessive		housessamme	—
elative		housestamme	—
illative		houseemme	—
adessive		housellamme	—
ablative		houseltamme	—
allative		housellemme	—
essive		housenamme	—
translative		houseksemme	—
abessive		housettamme	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	—

second-person plural possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		housenne	—
accusative	nom.	housenne	—
accusative	gen.	housenne	—
genitive		housenne	—
partitive		houseanne	—
inessive		housessanne	—
elative		housestanne	—
illative		houseenne	—
adessive		housellanne	—
ablative		houseltanne	—
allative		housellenne	—
essive		housenanne	—
translative		houseksenne	—
abessive		housettanne	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	—

third-person possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		housensa	—
accusative	nom.	housensa	—
accusative	gen.	housensa	—
genitive		housensa	—
partitive		houseaan houseansa	—
inessive		housessaan housessansa	—
elative		housestaan housestansa	—
illative		houseensa	—
adessive		housellaan housellansa	—
ablative		houseltaan houseltansa	—
allative		houselleen housellensa	—
essive		housenaan housenansa	—
translative		housekseen houseksensa	—
abessive		housettaan housettansa	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	—

French

Pronunciation

^{(aspirated h)}IPA^(key):/aws/

Noun

housef(uncountable)

house music,house (a genre of music)
Synonym:house music

Anagrams

houes,houés

Hungarian

Etymology

FromEnglishhouse.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):[ˈhɒuz]
Hyphenation:house^[1]
Rhymes:-uz

Noun

house(pluralhouse-ok)

(music)house music,house (a type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)

Declension

Inflection (stem in-o-,back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	house	house-ok
accusative	house-t	house-okat
dative	house-nak	house-oknak
instrumental	house-zal	house-okkal
causal-final	house-ért	house-okért
translative	house-zá	house-okká
terminative	house-ig	house-okig
essive-formal	house-ként	house-okként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	house-ban	house-okban
superessive	house-on	house-okon
adessive	house-nál	house-oknál
illative	house-ba	house-okba
sublative	house-ra	house-okra
allative	house-hoz	house-okhoz
elative	house-ból	house-okból
delative	house-ról	house-okról
ablative	house-tól	house-októl
non-attributive possessive - singular	house-é	house-oké
non-attributive possessive - plural	house-éi	house-okéi

Possessive formsofhouse
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	house-om	house-aim
2nd person sing.	house-od	house-aid
3rd person sing.	house-a	house-ai
1st person plural	house-unk	house-aink
2nd person plural	house-otok	house-aitok
3rd person plural	house-uk	house-aik

Derived terms

References

^Laczkó, Krisztina with Attila Mártonfi (2006)Helyesírás[Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó,→ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

house

Alternative form ofhous

Etymology 2

Verb

house

Alternative form ofhousen

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian BokmålWikipediahas an article on:

house

Wikipedia^nb

Etymology

FromEnglishhouse,house music.Doubletofhus.

Noun

housem(indeclinable)(uncountable)

house music,house (a genre of music)

Synonyms

housemusikk

References

“house”inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

FromEnglishhouse.Doubletofhus.

Noun

housem

house music,house (a genre of music)

Polish

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Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism,derived fromhouse music.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):/ˈxaws/
Rhymes:-aws
Syllabification:house

Noun

houseminan

house music,house(genre of music)

Declension

Declension ofhouse

	singular
nominative	house
genitive	house'u
dative	house'owi
accusative	house
instrumental	house'em
locative	housie
vocative	housie

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishhouse.

Noun

housem(uncountable)

house music,house(a genre of music)
Synonym:música house

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishhouse.

Noun

housem(uncountable)

house music

Declension

declension of house (singular only)

	singular
mgender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un)house	houseul
genitive/dative	(unui)house	houseului
vocative	houseule

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishhouse music.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):/ˈxaus/[ˈxau̯s]
Rhymes:-aus

Noun

housem(uncountable)

house music,house (a genre of music)
Synonym:música house

Usage notes

According toRoyal Spanish Academy(RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Etymology

FromEnglishhouse music.

Noun

housec

house music,house (a genre of music)

Declension

Declension ofhouse

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	house	houses
singular	definite	housen	housens
plural	indefinite	—	—
plural	definite	—	—

Synonyms

housemusik,house-musik

[1] Laczkó, Krisztina with Attila Mártonfi (2006)Helyesírás[Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó,→ISBN

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house

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