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(idiomatic) A valuable item recovered from poor storage, such as a suburban garage, farm shed, etc., where it had been more or less forgotten; especially a vintage automobile.
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Obsolete spelling of bazaar [A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.]
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(Britain, Ireland) A form of rented accommodation consisting of a single room for use as both sitting room and bedroom; there may also be a small kitchen area and washing and toilet facilities, but these amenities are more commonly outside the room and shared by several tenants.
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(slang, obsolete) The workhouse.
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Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
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A building used for birthing.
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Alternative spelling of boarding house [A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.]
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One who sleeps in the same area as another person.
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(archaic) A place for the storage of cakes of material, such as seedcake.
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Money paid to admit a child to summer camp.
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(humorous) An upscale hotel.
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(slang) A person's house or flat/apartment.
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The section of a workhouse where tramps and itinerants could be accommodated for one night.
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Alternative spelling of chapter house [A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place.]
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Alternative form of charnel house [a vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored]
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A person who works in a cloakroom (a room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club).
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The land attached to a cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.
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A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
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(now historical) A small country or suburban residence, typically with verandahs and French windows.
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Alternative form of countinghouse. [(dated) An office used by a business to house its accounts department.]
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Alternative form of countinghouse [(dated) An office used by a business to house its accounts department.]
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(historical) A room where one can crash after a bad acid trip.
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Alternative spelling of custom house [An official building, in a port, where customs are collected and shipping is cleared for entry and exit]
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A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.
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(South Asia) A dak bungalow.
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(colloquial) Lodgings; place of accommodation.
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(US, black slang, obsolete) Someone's house, home.
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A place where homeless people can sleep for the night.
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(US) Alternative spelling of dream house. [One's ideal house or home.]
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A private bathroom connected to a bedroom, as in an apartment or hotel room.
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Alternative form of farmhouse [(traditionally and archetypally) A farmer's residence.]
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(obsolete) an abode or place of residence
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(Canada, US) A large building for indoor sports, particularly at colleges.
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(rare or dialectal) A house; home.
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(US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.
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Alternative form of folk house [A house of the style that is predominant in the particular time and place referred to; an average house, an ordinary house.]
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(historical, Italian contexts) A type of inn, especially as the residence of a merchant or trader; a trading post, a trading factory.
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(India, historical) An Anglo-Indian suburban villa.
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A structure located at an entrance to a large property, especially a dwelling.
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A small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.
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A large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
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(uncountable, travel) A hotel rate that includes accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but no meal at lunchtime.
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Alternative form of hall house [A kind of vernacular house of the Middle Ages, traditional in the United Kingdom and northern Europe, usually timber-framed, and having a hall as the central element.]
adj
Alternative form of harboursome [Given to hospitality; hospitable.]
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A house that was the scene of a horrific incident
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A winter retreat; winter quarters.
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(slang) A house, a residence.
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(Britain) An enclosed resort providing accommodation (often in chalets) and entertainment, generally aimed at families.
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(US) Synonym of prison farm
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Alternative form of hoosegow [(US, slang) A jail.]
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(not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
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(US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
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(slang) The Walt Disney Company.
adj
Alternative form of house-proud [Proud of one's house, its furnishings, or its upkeep.]
adj
Alternative spelling of houselike [Resembling or characteristic of a house.]
v
(transitive, US) To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
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(transitive) To teach (a domestic pet) to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
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Alternative form of houseward [Towards a house.]
adj
Alternative form of housey [(colloquial) Resembling or characteristic of house music; houselike.]
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Alternative form of housey-housey [Lotto or bingo, especially when played for money.]
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(Hong Kong, Singapore) Abbreviation of house. [A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.]
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(now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day matters.
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Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
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(UK, US, Australia, archaic) A Chinese or Japanese temple.
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(slang) An area where hobos camp together.
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Alternative form of lazar house [(archaic) Synonym of leprosery: A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.]
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A reception of visitors held after getting up.
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(New Zealand) A small farm that is not the resident owner's primary source of income, or large residence that includes some agricultural features.
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Synonym of lodge (“type of building”)
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(obsolete) A Lombard house.
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The largest house on an estate or parcel of land.
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Alternative form of manor house [(UK) The main house on a landed estate.]
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In the Arab World, a house or inn used a place of rest, especially by travelers.
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A country cottage or farmstead in southern France.
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Alternative form of meetinghouse [A building where people meet for a purpose.]
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A type of hotel found in Japan, a cheaper version of a ryokan.
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A part of a home, typically a room, reserved specifically for a mother, in which she can relax and pursue her interests away from her family.
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Alternative form of moviehouse [(US) A cinema or movie theater.]
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(obsolete) An alehouse; a pothouse.
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A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
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(obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
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(slang, dated) An audience composed of people who have come in on free passes.
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A simple hotel or bed and breakfast in Spanish-speaking countries.
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(archaic, rare) A building providing transportation across a passage: a ferryhouse.
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An Italian boarding house.
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Alternative form of pension house [A home for the elderly; an old folks' home.]
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A place where pets board and are cared for while their owners are on holiday.
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Land that is used by itinerant people for the construction of temporary dwellings.
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Alternative form of safehouse [A secure location, known to only a few trusted people, suitable for hiding witnesses, agents or other persons perceived as being in danger.]
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A person with whom one shares a shelter
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A commercial building that has been or is being renovated as part of a shopsteading program.
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(UK, historical) A bailiff's or other house in which debtors are put before being taken to jail, or until they compromise with their creditors. At these houses extortionate charges were commonly made for food, lodging, etc.
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(historical) A place of temporary confinement for debtors, kept by a bailiff, where debtors were sponged of all money they had on themselves, before being transferred to debtor's prison.
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(South Africa) A settlement of makeshift shacks.
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Alternative form of stadthouse [(dated) A town hall in a Dutch-speaking country or (former) colony.]
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(obsolete) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm; a homestead.
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A temporary shelter for workmen on a railway etc.
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A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.
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A homestead, especially one on a hill.
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(Australia) A suburban shanty town inhabited by Aboriginal people.
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Alternative form of townhouse [(chiefly US, Canada) A row or terraced house.]
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Archaic spelling of workhouse. [(Britain, historical) An institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.]
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