Usually means: Shelter or accommodation for living.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word housing:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. housing: Merriam-Webster
  2. housing, housing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. housing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. housing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Housing, housing: Wordnik
  6. housing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Housing: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. housing: Wiktionary
  9. housing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. housing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. housing: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Housing, housing: Dictionary.com
  13. housing (1), housing (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. housing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Housing (TV series), Housing (engineering), Housing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Housing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. housing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. housing: Rhymezone
  19. housing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. housing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. housing: FreeDictionary.org
  22. housing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. housing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. housing, housing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  25. housing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. housing: Legal dictionary
  3. housing: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. housing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. housing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. housing: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. housing: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Housing: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See housings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
noun:  (uncountable) Residences, collectively.
noun:  (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
noun:  A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
noun:  An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
noun:  (architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
noun:  A niche for a statue.
noun:  (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
noun:  (nautical) A houseline.

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