HOUSES

Definition: HOUSES

HOUSES

Plural

1. Of House

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HOUSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: HOUSES

Going to check all the joy houses till I find him. (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

You're in the houses computer (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)

Somehow those reasons are never spoken of. To the Western world at that time, Japan was a fairybook nation: little people living in a strange land of rice-paper houses people who had almost no furniture, who sat on the floor and ate with chopsticks (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley)

A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me. (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

Amsterdam is renowned for its beer houses. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Beaches, houses, hoes, foes, friends (Between Me and You; performing artist: Ja Rule)

The houses are of silver (Sugar Walls; performing artist: Sheena Easton)

Rows of houses that are all the same (Pleasant Valley Sunday; performing artist: The Monkees)

Glass Houses (1972)

Those Who Live in Glass Houses (1925)

Glass Houses (1922)

Houses of Glass (1915)

Those Who Live in Glass Houses (1913)

Pink Houses (performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Land and Houses Public Co Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Ryan's Family Steak Houses Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Family Steak Houses of Florida, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Quality Houses Public Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Queens Moat Houses P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Houses and Palaces of Andalusia (reference)

• The Art Deco House: Avant-Garde Houses of the 1920s and 1930s (reference)

• Cut and Assemble Victorian Houses (reference)

• Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home (reference)

• The Houses That Sears Built; Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sears Catalog Homes (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Orchard Houses 4 Year College Admissions Index Of Majors & Sports (reference)

• Options Clearing Corporation & Commerce Clearing Houses Cons (reference)

• Historic Houses Association Membership (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• America's Haunted Houses (reference)

• True Tales of America's Haunted Houses (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Glass Houses (reference)

• Houses Of The Holy [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Twice Around the Houses / Wait Till They Change (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is a suburban low brown building, with a parking lot, which houses a clinic. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

The photo shows a model of the Children's Inn in an overhead shot from the front. The model includes the Inn itself, a parking lot and surrounding space and trees. The Children's Inn houses families of children undergoing treatment at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Portland Harbor, Maine Topographic survey Assistant Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, 1854-1858 Literally thousands of individual houses were delineated on this survey Assistant Longfellow was the brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Topographic Survey T-735. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A native Aleut village at Karluk. Sod houses serve as insulation against the cold. F&WS 14,664. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The tide house which houses an A.I.&NXG tide gage installation. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Small bergy bits the size of houses being released from Tracy Arm. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Standard instrument shelter (called a Stevenson Screen) used by NSSL. Shelter houses temperature, pressure, and relative humidity instruments. Observer comes to shelter to take readings. The shelter is a wooden box painted white with double-louvered sides. It is mounted on a stand 4 feet above the ground. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

A solar-powered Surface Automated Measurement (SAM) site. These are deployed to take measurements in and around severe weather. Tower instruments give wind direction and speed; rain gauge on left. White box houses temperature, relative humidity and pressure instruments. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Students at Centreville Middle School learn about bird houses as part of an outdoor classroom being built on the school grounds. Credit: Keith Weller.

Watershed dam in Virginia is surrounded by houses. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The guardian, moreover, so long as he has the wardship of the land, shall keep up the houses, parks, fishponds, stanks, mills, and other things pertaining to the land, out of the issues of the same land; and he shall restore to the heir, when he has come to full age, all his land, stocked with ploughs and wainage, according as the season of husbandry shall require, and the issues of the land can reasonable bear. (reference)

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. (reference)

But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. (reference)

Amendment IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. (reference)

If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. (reference)

It shall also have the right to establish and maintain hospitals, dispensaries, workmen's houses and gardens, and other charitable and social institutions. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It seemed quite a shame, especially considering how many houses there are where fine instruments are absolutely thrown away

CROPHI AND MOPHI make the bold and unfounded assumption that there were really 21 houses on each side, instead of 20 as stated by Balbus

Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains

When their houses are in ruins they rebuild them without cost

It made you think of dark purple because the grapes were dark purple that grew in Greece outside houses like white temples

The houses were vacant, and a vacant house falls quickly apart

As I was on the road, observing the littleness of the houses, the trees, the cattle, and the people, I began to think myself in Lilliput

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Avoid sleeping in thatch, mud, or adobe houses. (references)

Use bed nets if sleeping in mud or thatch houses. (references)

Since that time, other houses have opened in other major cities. (references)

Business

There are almost 17.8 million houses in Mexico. (references)

Exchange houses are Egypt’s newest financial entities. (references)

An estimated 3.6 million new houses were built over the last 30 years. (references)

Children

Indonesia

Open houses for street children have been established in several provinces. (references)

Indonesia

The Indonesian Children's Welfare Foundation reports that 100 open houses have been established. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

NGO centers, including those run by BICE, are similar to half-way houses, paying the children a small amount of money while teaching them vocational and budgeting skills. (references)

Civil Liberties

Azerbaijan

Most newspapers are printed in government publishing houses. (references)

Peru

Real estate, buildings, and houses owned by the Catholic Church are exempt from property taxes. (references)

Jordan

The Political Parties Law prohibits houses of worship from being used for political party activity. (references)

Discrimination

Romania

The two houses had not reconciled their versions by year's end. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

Members of both houses serve for 4 years. (references)

Latvia

The Supreme Court consists of the Senate and Houses of Court. (references)

Human Rights

Saint Kitts and Nevis

A prison on Nevis houses 20 inmates. (references)

Haiti

They injured 19 persons and destroyed more than 135 houses. (references)

Belgium

As of September, 21 of the proposed justice houses had opened. (references)

Indigenous People

South Africa

Six provinces have established houses of traditional leaders. (references)

Bangladesh

Bengalis later set fire to more than 100 houses belonging to tribals. (references)

Minorities

Ghana

Two persons were killed, and 56 houses were burned. (references)

Political Economy

Japan

The lower house is the more powerful of the two houses. (references)

Netherlands

The Second Chamber is by far the more important of the two houses. (references)

Brazil

The Congress consists of two houses, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. (references)

Political Rights

Bahrain

The exact powers of the two houses of the prospective legislature are under discussion. (references)

Kazakhstan

The election law requires candidates for both houses to meet minimum age and education requirements and to pay a nonrefundable registration fee of 25 times the minimum monthly wage of $500 (approximately 70,000 tenge). (references)

Russia

The Constitution establishes four branches of Government: The Presidency; the Federal Assembly made up of two houses (the State Duma and Federation Council); the Government and Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister; and the Judiciary. (references)

Trade

Australia

This places them in competition with brokerage houses and merchant banks. (references)

Nigeria

Apart from these categories, there exist many finance houses, mortgage and community banks. (references)

Israel

The actual forms are printed by a number of commercial printing houses in the United States. (references)

Travel

Nicaragua

There is an ample supply of houses for rent. (references)

Chad

Modern houses and apartments are scarce and most are below U.S./European norms. (references)

Philippines

For entertainment, there is a wide choice of movie houses, theaters, and social clubs. (references)

Women

Namibia

In 2000 safe houses opened in Mariental, Swakopmund, and Tsumeb. (references)

Paraguay

Law enforcement officials periodically stage raids on houses of prostitution. (references)

Afghanistan

Some women could not afford the cost of a burqa, and thus had to remain at home or risk beatings if they left their houses uncovered. (references)

Worker Rights

Panama

Their travel is facilitated by a network of alien smugglers, travel agents, hotels, and safe houses. (references)

Cape Verde

Praia has a 30-acre export processing zone (EPZ), which houses two Portuguese companies and a Cape Verdean-Sengalese joint venture. (references)

Nepal

To date, approximately 1,000 heads of household have been provided with up to .335 acres of land and 75 cubic feet of timber to build houses. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "HOUSES": as safe as houses ♦ block of houses ♦ group of houses ♦ Halfway Houses ♦ Houses of office ♦ houses of parliament ♦ purple chinese houses ♦ row of houses ♦ semidetached houses ♦ table of houses ♦ the houses of parliament ♦ treasure houses. Additional references.

Ending with "HOUSES": ale-houses, bath-houses, boarding-houses, book-houses, cow-houses, dwelling-houses, dye-houses, eating-houses, fish-houses, gaming-houses, guest-houses, hen-houses, ice-houses, inspection-houses, lodging-houses, meeting-houses, movie-houses, opera-houses, power-houses, public-houses, rest-houses, safe-houses, tea-houses, wash-houses.

Containing "HOUSES": lodging-houses-for-single-men.

Breton

tiez. (various references)

Bulgarian 

къщи близнаци (semidetached houses). (various references)

Chinese 

议院 (House). (various references)

Danish

husrække (row of houses), husblok (block of buildings, block of houses, city block, island site, residential block), Enfamiliehuse (one-family houses), beregnet lejevaerdi for ejerboliger (imputed rent of owner-occupied houses), blok (block, pad), boligblok (block, block of houses), Boliger for flere familier (apartment houses, tenement buildings), boreinstallationer med en kombination af boreplatform og tender omfatter en forholdsvis lille platform,der baerer fundament,hejsespil,rotationsbord,motorer og andet mindre udstyr,medens laegteren eller tenderen har plads til resten,herunder aabne borevaes (and crew quarters, cementing equipment, chemicals, drawworks, engines and other small items, etc.), fuel and water, in platform drilling tender installations, pipe racks, rotary table, supplies(dry mud, the relatively small platform carries the substructure, while the barge or tender houses the rest which includes the mud pits), begunstige oeget samarbejde mellem massemedierorganisationer,herunder pressebureauer,saavel som mellem forlag og organisationer (as well as among publishing houses and organizations, including press agencies, to favour increased co-operation among mass media organizations), dyrkning i huse (growing in houses, growing in sheds, indoor cultivation), ubrudte husraekker (continuous rows of houses), Enkelthuse (detached houses), fjernelse fra bygningerne (emptied houses), karre (block of buildings, block of houses, city block, island site, residential block), karre med lejligheder (block of buildings, block of houses, city block, island site, residential block), Dobbelthus (semi-detached houses). (various references)

Dutch

huizenblok (block, block of buildings, block of houses, city block, island site, residential block), huizenrij (row of houses), rug-aan-rug woningen (back-to-back houses), blok (block, chunk of wood, cube, pad, pulley), cultuur in kelders (growing in houses, growing in sheds, indoor cultivation), dubbele eengezinshuizen (semi-detached houses), eengezinshuizen (one-family houses), flatgebouwen (apartment houses, tenement buildings), bij installaties van het platform/boorlichtertype draagt het relatief kleine platform de onderbouw,de rotarykraan,de draaitafel,de motoren en andere kleine objecten,terwijl de lichter of het dienstvaartuig plaats biedt aan de rest,zoals spoelingtanks,spoe (and crew quarters, cementing equipment, chemicals, drawworks, engines and other small items, etc.), fuel and water, in platform drilling tender installations, pipe racks, rotary table, supplies(dry mud, the relatively small platform carries the substructure, while the barge or tender houses the rest which includes the mud pits), rij huizen (row of houses), woongebouwen (apartment houses, tenement buildings), ruimere samenwerking begunstigen tussen organisaties van de massamedia, met inbegrip van persbureaus, alsook tussen uitgeversmaatschappijen en -organisaties (as well as among publishing houses and organizations, including press agencies, to favour increased co-operation among mass media organizations), strokenbouw (continuous rows of houses), teelt in huizen (growing in houses, growing in sheds, indoor cultivation), twee aan twee gebouwde huizen (semi-detached houses), vrijstaande huizen (detached houses), woningblok (block of buildings, block of houses, city block, island site, residential block), woonblok (block, block of buildings, block of houses, city block, island site, residential block), leegmaken van de lokalen (emptied houses). (various references)

Finnish

viljely sisätiloissa (growing in houses, growing in sheds, indoor cultivation), viljely sienimöissä (growing in houses, growing in sheds, indoor cultivation), talorivistö (row of houses), kortteli (block). (various references)

French

ilot urbain (block of houses), bâtiments collectifs (apartment houses), bande de maisons (row of houses), bloc d'immeubles (block of houses), Chambres du Parlement/les (both houses of Parliament), construction de logements à caractère social (construction of houses subsidized by public welfare), culture en maisons (growing in houses), dépopulation des locaux occupés (emptied houses), dans le cas des installations de forage assistées d'un tender,la plate-forme,de dimensions relativement reduites,supporte la substructure,le treuil de forage,la table de rotation,les moteurs et autres matériels légers,tandis que la barge,ou le tender,a (while the barge or tender houses the rest which includes the mud pits), demeures adossees (back-to-back houses), deux Chambres/les (both houses of Parliament), îlot (block of houses), ilot d'habitation (block of houses), valeur locative imputée des immeubles occupés par leurs propriétaires (imputed rent of owner-occupied houses), loyer imputé des immeubles occupés par leurs propriétaires (imputed rent of owner-occupied houses), maisons isolées (detached houses), maisons jumelees (semi-detached houses), maisons unifamiliales (one-family houses), paté de maisons (block of houses), pate de maisons (block of houses), pensions (boarding houses), rangée de maisons (row of houses), rangées continues de maisons (continuous rows of houses), table de domification (table of houses), favoriser une coopération accrue entre organes d'information de masse, y compris les agences de presse, ainsi qu'entre organisations et maisons d'édition (as well as among publishing houses and organizations). (various references)

German

Häuser. (various references)

Greek 

καλλιέργεια σε κλειστούς χώρους (growing in houses, growing in sheds, indoor cultivation), καλλιέργεια σε θαλάμους (growing in houses, growing in sheds, indoor cultivation), όταν πρόκειται για εγκαταστάσεις γεωτρήσεως που υποστηρίζονται από φορτηγίδα,η εξέδρα,σχετικά μικρών διαστάσεων,φέρει την υποκατασκευή,τ (while the barge or tender houses the rest which includes the mud pits), σπίτια πανταχόθεν ελεύθερα (detached houses), σπίτια που ακουμπούν μερικώς μεταξύ τους (semi-detached houses), σειρά κατοικιών (row of houses), μονοκατοικίες (one-family houses), πολυκατοικίες (block of flats), ημιελεύθερα σπίτια (semi-detached houses), εκκένωση των χώρων (emptied houses), τεκμαρτό ενοίκιο ιδιοκατοικουμένων κατοικιών (imputed rent of owner-occupied houses), οικοδομικό τετράγωνο (block). (various references)

Guarani

cuadra (block of houses). (various references)

Hungarian

zsúfolt házaknak játszik (to play to packed houses), házsor (line of houses, range of buildings, row of houses). (various references)

Irish

tithe, dtithe. (various references)

Italian

case (homes). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

戸戸 (each house, every house, houses and inhabitants, population), 両院 (both Houses of Parliament), 両院協議会 (joint committee of both houses), 万戸 (all houses, many houses), 三十戸 (thirty houses), 家並 (every door, row of houses), 家並み (every door, row of houses), 家続き (row of houses), 全戸 (all the houses), 戸 (counter for houses, door), 両議院 (both houses of parliament), 戸々 (each house, every house, houses and inhabitants, population), 門並み (at every door, line of houses), 数軒 (several houses), 二院 (the two houses of legislature), 町並 (stores and houses on street, street), 町並み (stores and houses on street, street), 衆参両院 (both houses of Parliament), 街並 (stores and houses on street, street), 軒並 (row of houses), 軒並み (row of houses), 軒数 (number of houses), 戸口 (door, houses and inhabitants, population). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かどなみ (at every door, line of houses), やなみ (every door, row of houses), りょういん (both Houses of Parliament), りょういんきょうぎかい (joint committee of both houses), りょうぎいん (both houses of parliament), こ (arc, big, business, child, counter for houses, counter for mil. units, crime, fault, great, individual, large, old, price, selling, sin, the late, the young of animals), ここう (aloofness, arc light, bare existence, bare livelihood, dangerous place, houses and inhabitants, jaws of death, living on others, one's right-hand man, one's trusted henchman, population, subsistence, superiority, tiger's den), けんすう (number, number of houses, one ken in length or breadth), いえなみ (every door, row of houses), すうけん (several houses), にいん (the two houses of legislature), のきなみ (row of houses), ばんこ (all houses, eternity, many houses, perpetuity), さんじっこ (thirty houses), まちなみ (stores and houses on street, street), しゅうさんりょういん (both houses of Parliament), ぜんこ (all the houses, ancient days, obstinacy, old times, stubbornness), いえつづき (row of houses). (various references)

Korean 

집 (Dwelling, Dwellings, House). (various references)

Malagasy

andian-trano (group of houses). (various references)

Manx

claghan (cluster of houses, hamlet, small stone, stepping stones). (various references)

Norwegian

hus (home, house). (various references)

Pig Latin

ouseshay.(various references)

Portuguese

casas. (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

casas. (various references)

Romanian

palatul parlamentului (the houses of parliament). (various references)

Russian 

дом (building, dwelling, home, house). (various references)

Spanish

casas (housing). (various references)

Swedish

hus (cabana, establishment, family, hall, home, house, household, housing), bebyggelse (buildings, habitation, settlement). (various references)

Thai

ปกติดี ((as) safe as houses). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "HOUSES": housesat, housesit, housesits, housesitting. (additional references)

Words ending with "HOUSES": alehouses, almshouses, backhouses, baghouses, barrelhouses, bathhouses, bawdyhouses, birdhouses, blockhouses, boardinghouses, boathouses, bughouses, bunkhouses, cathouses, chophouses, chouses, clearinghouses, clubhouses, coffeehouses, cookhouses, countinghouses, courthouses, customhouses, customshouses, deckhouses, doghouses, dollhouses, farmhouses, firehouses, flophouses, gashouses, gatehouses, glasshouses, greenhouses, guardhouses, guesthouses, henhouses, hothouses, icehouses, jailhouses, lighthouses, longhouses, madhouses, meetinghouses, motherhouses, nuthouses, oasthouses, outhouses, packinghouses, penthouses, pesthouses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"HOUSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hauksbee, Hausen, hausse, Heussen, hoises, hooses, hoostes, houes, housden, housen, hou-sen, houser, housers, housey, housi, Housley, housr, housset, houssies, houues, howses, Hrusov, Huesos, husse, Phuopsis. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hoses, house, shoes, souse.

-2 letters: hoes, hose, hues, oses, shes, shoe, sous, sues, uses.

-3 letters: ess, hes, hoe, hue, oes, ohs, ose, she, sos, sou, sue, use.

-4 letters: eh, es, he, ho, oe, oh, os, sh, so, uh, us.

+1 letter: chouses, hocuses, housels, housers.

+2 letters: beshouts, choruses, chousers, choushes, gashouse, gumshoes, hocussed, hocusses, housesat, housesit, onrushes, rehouses, rosebush, shouters, slouches, southers, unhorses, unhouses.

+3 letters: alehouses, almshouse, aurochses, authoress, baghouses, beshrouds, bughouses, cathouses, chorussed, chorusses, doghouses, enshrouds, esophagus, gashouses, goulashes, henhouses, homespuns, hothouses, houseboys, housefuls, houseless, housesits, housetops, humorless, icehouses, madhouses, nonsuches, nourishes, nuthouses, oasthouse, outfishes, outgushes, outhouses, outpushes, outrushes, outshames, outshines, outwashes, outwishes, pesthouse, phaseouts, phoebuses, pishogues, pothouses, pushovers, rhombuses, roughness, saphenous, scouthers, shakeouts, shoulders, shouldest, slouchers, soutaches, southeast, southerns, southwest, squooshed, squooshes, studhorse, subechoes, subepochs, sulphones, sunchokes, supershow, taphouses, teahouses, toughness, washhouse.