Word Finder - house

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

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

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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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On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.

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The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

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A theatre.

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After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

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

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The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.

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

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A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.

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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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I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.

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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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One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

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

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Lotto; bingo.

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

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As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.

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A small stand of trees in a swamp.

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(sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.

A house without children is not a home.

Living in that house and using the pool would be like a summer vacation, not a job.

Such a house my father built after the Civil War, and when he married my mother they went to live in it.

In that small house, there were few secrets.

The house of the future won't just be better than the house you have today.

I build a house and lay out a garden, and you build hospitals.

Connie had moved into the house for a while.

It was called "Ivy Green" because the house and the surrounding trees and fences were covered with beautiful English ivy.

Which is your house? he asked.

After the dishes were done and the beds made, she usually wandered around the house or sat in the yard, soaking up sun.

The little house is a genuine bit of paradise.

When they reached Mr. Johnson's house, the old man politely handed him the turkey and turned to go.

It sounded like a good chance to get away from this house and the memories for a while.

Everywhere you turned, people were speculating about, or building models of, the "House of Tomorrow," the "Car of Tomorrow," or the "Workplace of Tomorrow."

As he was going along a foot path across a wide- open space adjoining the Povarskoy on one side and the gardens of Prince Gruzinski's house on the other, Pierre suddenly heard the desperate weeping of a woman close to him.

But your house will do more.

But when he returned to the house convinced that Moscow would not be defended, he suddenly felt that what before had seemed to him merely a possibility had now become absolutely necessary and inevitable.

Now son, the house won't clean itself.

She's a house guest, not a prisoner.

Then he said, "Your house is a very poor place, I think."

Pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in Petersburg.

I won't stay in his house long.

No; she just dug her claws into the wood and climbed down the sides of this house to the ground.

She called the house phone.

So, with his own hands he carried the golden tripod to the little house where Thales lived.

I'm going over to their house.

The house was completely empty.

Han's brother Laney, one of Damian's oldest Guardians and the station chief for NOVA sector, leaned in the doorway to the main house with a smile.

In a speech to the House of Representatives at this same time, Congressman Davy Crockett told the story of getting chewed out by a constituent for voting for a $20,000 emergency relief bill for the homeless in a city just wiped out by a fire.

I promised to keep still while she went to the house to fetch it.

Bread I at first made of pure Indian meal and salt, genuine hoe-cakes, which I baked before my fire out of doors on a shingle or the end of a stick of timber sawed off in building my house; but it was wont to get smoked and to have a piny flavor.

His pictures are all over the house.

We've known since he took you up to his parent's house.

Back toward the middle of the house she went and down into the foyer.

If you'll come back to my house, you shall have the best room in it--yes, all the rooms if you wish.

Before Mrs. Jacquot could open it, some one called out, "Is this the house of Jacquot, the charcoal man?"

She has counted everything in the house, and is now busy counting the words in her primer.

Bagration drove up in a carriage to the house occupied by Barclay.

After speaking to the senior French officer, who came out of the house with a white handkerchief tied to his sword and announced that they surrendered, Dolokhov dismounted and went up to Petya, who lay motionless with outstretched arms.

Dolokhov stood at the gate of the ruined house, letting a crowd of disarmed Frenchmen pass by.

Where is this house?

Once the garage door was secured, she pulled away from the house.

Don't go back to the house.

I told her we had house rules; no hanky-panky, but she didn't believe me.

The old house groaned with each gust of wind, but it felt like a happy house.

Come to think of it, he hadn't been out at all since they returned from his parent's house.

Roxanne's house was within walking distance and the night was balmy.

Still, Brandon insisted on driving her to the house.

I let our stupid house rules stand between us for a long time, but I was the one who finally broke them.

No house rules were broken.