house

See also: House

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

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

Proto-Germanic *hūsą

Proto-West Germanic *hūs

Old English hūs

Middle English hous

English house

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house (L512)

From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.

The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.)

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 (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)

A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. [from 9th c.]
This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
  The big houses, 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, in Mr. 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-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
1. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
A container; a thing which houses another.
- 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science 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, page 25:
  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 wonderful house in which we live.
(uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- 2007 November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, in Newsweek:
  Those homeowners who bought too much house, 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 an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
Coordinate terms: apartment, condo, condominium, flat
The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:2:
  one that feared God with all his house
A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.

On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.
2. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]
  A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
  - 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
    I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
4. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof. [from 10th c.]
  One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
  
  The house always wins.
  - 1964, “Northwest Ohio Quarterly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 36, page 185:
    The farce comedy which followed, When We're Married by Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation. The production filled the house.
  - 1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay 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 the house. They worked for tips.
5. (historical) A workhouse.
  - 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners, volume 29, page 169:
    To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he 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 the house.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 2, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The 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 the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]
The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.
A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]
A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
(figurative) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
- 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.
- 1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:
  Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […].
A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]
I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.
An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, 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, published 2012, →ISBN, page 313:
  Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and 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 fourth Lenormand card.
(chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
(uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.
(US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
(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.
(American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.

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 (hau¹ si²)
→ Japanese: ハウス (hausu)

Translations

See house/translations § Noun.

Etymology 2

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house (L23571)

From Middle English housen, from Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)

(transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
The car is housed in the garage.
- 1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: Or The Gard’ners Almanac; […] [November.]”, in Sylva, 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 the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 29:
  Houſe your choiceſt Carnations, or rather ſet them under a Pent-houſe againſt a South-wall, ſo as a covering being thrown over them to preſerve them in extremity of weather, they may yet enjoy the freer air at all other times.
- 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646:
  Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
(transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- 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] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 41, recto:
  Palladius wished him [...] to house all the Helots.
To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
  You shall not house with me.
- 1996 October 5, Robert Whymant, “Tokyo tries to calm islands row”, in The Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, column 2:
  The federation yesterday vowed to occupy Uotsuri, one of the islands, and build a permanent structure to house six members.
(transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  Where Saturn houses.
(transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
(transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
The joists were housed into 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”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
  Euen now we hous'd him in the Abbey heere
(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes 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 is housed in his sepulchre
(nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
to house the upper spars
(Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
  All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a 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

Spanish: encajar (es), envolver (es)
Swahili: nyumba (sw)
Turkish: barındırmak (tr)

Etymology 3

Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, 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, page 73:
  […] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is by house and techno pioneers.
- 2001 March, Philip Sherburne, “Exos, Strength [album review]”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 91, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, →ISSN, page 66:
  And while hard, minimal techno has become increasingly influenced by house and Oval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school on Strength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno purists Surgeon and Oliver Ho.
- 2006, Mark Jonathan Butler, Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 45:
  The first genre of American dance music to become popular in the United Kingdom was Chicago house. Although music from Detroit was soon imported as well, it was often treated as subcategory of house, and for many years the most common English term for electronic dance music in general was "house" or "acid house". […] During the formative years of techno and house, the musicians involved interacted in various ways.

Descendants

→ Belarusian: гаўс (haŭs)
→ Bulgarian: хаус (haus)
→ Catalan: house
→⇒ Chinese: 浩室音樂 / 浩室音乐 (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 — see house music

Chinese

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): hau¹ si²

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hau¹ si²
  - Yale: hāu sí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hau¹ si²
  - Guangdong Romanization: heo¹ xi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

Noun

house

(Hong Kong Cantonese) mansion; large house (Classifier: 間／间 c)

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɦou̯sɛ]

Etymology 1

Noun

house n

gosling

Declension

Declension of house (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

house m inan

house music, house (a genre of music)

Declension

Declension of house (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

From English house. Doublet of huis and osso.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

house m (uncountable)

house music, house (a genre of music)

Finnish

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɑu̯s/, [ˈhɑ̝u̯s̠]
Rhymes: -ɑus
Hyphenation^(key): hou‧se

Noun

house (uncountable)

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

Declension

Inflection of house (Kotus type 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 forms of house (Kotus type 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

house f (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

houes, houés

Hungarian

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

house (plural house-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 forms of house
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 of hous

Etymology 2

Verb

house

Alternative form of housen

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

house

Wikipedia ^nb

Etymology

From English house, house music. Doublet of hus.

Noun

house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)

house music, house (a genre of music)

Synonyms

housemusikk

References

“house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English house. Doublet of hus.

Noun

house m

house music, house (a genre of music)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

house

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from house music.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

house m inan

house music, house (genre of music)

Declension

Declension of house

	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 borrowing from English house.

Noun

house m (uncountable)

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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English house.

Noun

house m (uncountable)

house music

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	house	houseul
genitive-dative	house	houseului
vocative	houseule

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English house music.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈxaus/ [ˈxau̯s]
Rhymes: -aus

Noun

house m (uncountable)

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

Usage notes

According to Royal 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

From English house music.

Noun

house c

house music, house (a genre of music)

Declension

Declension of **house**
		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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English

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Chinese

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Czech

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Dutch

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Finnish

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French

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Hungarian

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Middle English

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Polish

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Portuguese

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Noun