houses 1 of 2

noun

Definition of housesnext
plural of house
1
as in companies
a commercial or industrial activity or organization a publishing house that specializes in school textbooks

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as in families
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor the present British royal family belongs to the House of Windsor

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as in residences
the place where one lives come over to my house so I can show you my new furniture

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as in households
those who live as a family in one house the whole house is in a state of excited anticipation for the holidays

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as in nests
the shelter or resting place of a wild animal prairie dogs make their house underground

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houses

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verb

present tense third-person singular of house
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as in shelters
to provide with living quarters or shelter some of the freshmen were temporarily housed in local motels while the new dorm was being finished

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as in confines
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers the famous document is housed in a special display case

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for houses
  1. families
  2. residences
  3. households
  4. nests
  5. tribes
  6. surrounds
  7. businesses
  8. clans
Noun
  • Magda Teter Jewish Middlemen, Archival Myopia The story of two Jewish trading families during the last decades of the Regency of Algiers is skewed by being told through the perspectives of only European and American actors.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
  • That has caused a crisis in the park, and there are families who have had to move against their will.
    Albinson Linares, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of families
Noun
  • Kayla Simone, a former custom-home designer turned content creator, has built two residences with her husband within the last four years.
    Julia Mitchem, Architectural Digest, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Only about 2% of residences in the 100 counties hit hardest by Hurricane Helene were protected by flood insurance, an NBC News analysis shows.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of residences
Noun
  • Last month, the nation’s households increased their spending at retailers.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The support measures would include subsidies to low-income households and significantly larger grants to local governments, Ishiba said in the speech.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of households
Noun
  • Exactly 150 years ago, scientists first discovered that leaf-cutter ants were cultivating gardens of fungi inside their nests, feeding the fungi bits of leaves and in turn eating the tips of the fungal webs.
    Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Heavy rain and standing water likely destroyed the insects' nests underground and in trees.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of nests
Noun
  • Many tribes were critical of NAGPRA for empowering museums to make decisions about whether Indigenous people had valid connections to their ancestors.
    Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The Met and other museums with significant Native American collections are also being criticized for displaying work with descriptions that omit or minimize information about the wars, occupations, massacres, and exploitation that dominated the tribes’ past.
    Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of tribes
Verb
  • The comet is thought to have originated in the Oort Cloud — a distant, spherical region of icy bodies that surrounds the solar system.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Downtown Marbella The heart of modern Marbella surrounds bustling Avenida Ricardo Soriano.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of surrounds
Noun
  • The first measure would raise the minimum wage from $16 per hour to $18 per hour for all businesses by 2026.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The decrease is attributed to a reduction in sales from online ordering, digital marketing, and online ticketing and reservation businesses.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of businesses
Noun
  • Chaos and crime Testing Hamas’ limited capabilities is the reemergence of armed gangs and clans, who held sway in Gaza before 2007.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Dungeons & Dragons taught fantasy fans to understand orcs as a fusion of racist tropes, combining a barbaric other and a vaguely native people of tribes and clans.
    Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 2024
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