house (noun)

  • 111house|ful — «HOWS ful», noun, plural fuls. as much or as many as a house will hold: »[Her] best seller was a plotless package of anecdotes about her parental ordeal in raising a houseful of Lovable Brats (Maclean s) …

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  • 112house|guest — «HOWS GEHST», noun. a guest who stays at one s house overnight or longer: »They had no trouble getting…invitations to be houseguests for the night (New York Times) …

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  • 113house|hold|er — «HOWS HOHL duhr», noun. 1. a person who owns or lives in a house. 2. the head of a family …

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  • 114house|hold — «HOWS hohld», noun, adjective. –n. 1. all the people living in a house; family; family and servants; domestic establishment: »Persons living in institutions, hotels, and large rooming houses are not counted as households (Wall Street Journal). 2 …

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  • 115house|man — «HOWS muhn», noun, plural men. a manservant employed to do general work about a house, hotel, or sometimes, other institutional buildings …

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  • 116house|mate — «HOWS MAYT», noun. a person who lives in the same house with another; fellow member of a household …

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  • 117house|mis|tress — «HOWS MIHS trihs», noun. 1. the mistress of a house. 2. a woman housemaster …

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  • 118house|room — «HOWS ROOM, RUM», noun. room or space in a house; lodging …

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  • 119house|warm|ing — «HOWS WR mihng», noun. a party given when a family moves into a house for the first time …

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  • 120house´wife´li|ness — house|wife|ly «HOWSEH WYF lee», adjective, adverb. –adj. of or like a housewife; skillful and thrifty in the management of household affairs. –adv. Obsolete. in a manner befiting a housewife. –house´wife´li|ness, noun …

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