| Sounds | hhaw's | |
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| Rhymes | alehouse ... whorehouse: 54 rhymes with aws... | |
| Meaning | The members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments. | |
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| Example | "he worked for a brokerage house" | |
| Synonyms | firm, business firm | |
| Narrower | accounting firm | A firm of accountants who provide accounting and auditing services for a fee |
| auction house | A firm that conducts auctions | |
| consulting firm, consulting company | A firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee | |
| corporation, corp | A business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | |
| dealer | A firm engaged in trading | |
| law firm | A firm of lawyers | |
| publisher, publishing house, publishing firm, publishing company | A firm in the publishing business | |
| Broader | business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation | A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it |
| Spanish | casa, compañía, empresa, empresas, firma | |
| Catalan | casa, companyia, empresa, firma | |
| Meaning | The members of a religious community living together. | |
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| Broader | community | A group of people living in a particular local area |
| Spanish | comunidad religiosa, feligreses | |
| Catalan | comunitat religiosa, feligresos | |
| Meaning | The audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema. | |
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| Examples |
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| Parts | claque | A group of followers hired to applaud at a performance |
| Broader | audience | A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance |
| Spanish | entrada, público | |
| Catalan | entrada, públic | |
| Meaning | An official assembly having legislative powers. | |
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| Example | "a bicameral legislature has two houses" | |
| Narrower | Dail Eireann, Dail | The lower house of the parliament of the Irish Republic |
| House of Burgesses | The lower house of legislature in colonial Virginia | |
| House of Commons, British House of Commons | The lower house of the British parliament | |
| House of Lords, British House of Lords | The upper house of the British parliament | |
| Seanad Eireann, Seanad | The upper house of the parliament of the Irish Republic | |
| United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives, US House of Representatives, House of Representatives, U.S. House, US House | The lower legislative house of the United States Congress | |
| Broader | legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers | persons who make or amend or repeal laws |
| Spanish | cámara | |
| Catalan | cambra | |
| Meaning | aristocratic family line. | |
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| Example | "the House of York" | |
| Narrower | Medici | aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century |
| royalty, royal family, royal line, royal house | royal persons collectively | |
| Broader | family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry | People descended from a common ancestor |
| Spanish | casa | |
| Catalan | casa | |
| Meaning | Play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults. | |
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| Example | "the children were playing house" | |
| Broader | play, child's play | Activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules |
| Spanish | papás y mamás | |
| Catalan | papes i mames | |
| Meaning | The management of a gambling ... / gambling house or casino. | |
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| Example | "the house gets a percentage of every bet" | |
| Broader | management | Those in charge of running a business |
| Spanish | banca, casa | |
| Catalan | banca | |
| Meaning | A social unit living together. | |
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| Examples |
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| Synonyms | family, household, home, menage | |
| Narrower | broken home | A family in which the parents have separated or divorced |
| extended family | A family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives | |
| foster family | The family of a fosterling | |
| foster home | A household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) | |
| menage a trois | household for three | |
| nuclear family, conjugal family | A family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner | |
| Broader | unit, social unit | An organization regarded as part of a larger / larger social group |
| Spanish | casa, familia, hogar, menaje | |
| Catalan | casa, família, llar | |
| Meaning | A building in which something is sheltered or located. | |
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| Example | "they had a large carriage house" | |
| Narrower | bathhouse, bagnio | A building containing public baths |
| courthouse | A building that houses judicial courts | |
| field house, sports arena | A building for indoor sports | |
| icehouse | A house for storing ice | |
| meat house | A small house (on a farm) where meat is stored | |
| oast house | A building containing an oast (a kiln for drying hops) | |
| pump house, pumping station | A house where pumps (e.g. to irrigate) are installed and operated | |
| smokehouse, meat house | A small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish | |
| stash house | A house where weapons and supplies are hidden | |
| Broader | building, edifice | A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place |
| Spanish | casa | |
| Verbs | house | provide housing for |
| Meaning | Contain or cover. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "This box houses the gears" | |
| Broader | accommodate, hold, admit | Have room for |
| Spanish | albergar, alojar, hospedar | |
| Catalan | albergar, allotjar | |
| Nouns | housing | a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component |
| Meaning | Provide housing for. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Example | "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town" | |
| Synonyms | put up, domiciliate | |
| Narrower | chamber | place in a chamber |
| home | Provide with, or send to, a home / home / home / home | |
| lodge, accommodate | Provide housing for | |
| rehouse | put up in a new or different housing | |
| take in | Provide with shelter | |
| Broader | shelter | Provide shelter / shelter for |
| Spanish | albergar, alojar, cobijar, dar alojamiento, domiciliar, hospedar | |
| Catalan | acollir, albergar, allotjar | |
| Nouns | house | a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families |
| house | a building in which something is sheltered or located | |
| housing | structures collectively in which people are housed | |
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