n.[C]

1. 房子；住宅
   They built a house by the roadside.

   他们在路边盖了一间房子。

2. 家庭，家人
3. （养动物的）棚
   The children visited the monkey house at the zoo.

   孩子们参观了动物园的猴舍。

4. 家族（尤指皇族或贵族）
   He belongs to an ancient house.

   他是一个古老家族的后裔。

5. （学校的）供膳的宿舍；（学生为体育比赛而分的）组
6. 机构；所，社；商号
   We are planning to set up a publishing house.

   我们正打算成立一家出版社。

7. （大写）议院[the S]
   He is speaker of the House of Representatives.

   他是众议院的议长。

8. （用于特殊目的的）建筑物
9. 剧场；（剧场等的）观众[S1]
   There was a full house at the opening night of the play.

   该剧首次上演的那个晚上，剧场客满。

10. 妓院

vt.

1. 给……房子住；给……房子用
   The poor were housed in dingy, rotting buildings.

   穷人住在昏暗破败的房子里。

2. 把……储藏在房内
   The library houses about one million books.

   该图书馆收藏了约一百万册书。

3. 覆盖

vi.

1. 住
   You and I may as well house together.

   你和我不妨住在一起。

n.

1. a building for human habitation.
   ▸chiefly Scottish a dwelling that is one of several in a building.
   ▸a building in which animals live or in which things are kept.
2. a building in which people meet for a particular activity.
   ▸a firm or institution:

   a fashion house.
   ▸ (the House) Brit. informal the Stock Exchange.
   ▸a restaurant or inn.
   ▸a theatre.
3. a religious community that occupies a particular building.
   ▸a residential building for pupils at a boarding school.
   ▸Brit. formal a college of a university.
4. a legislative or deliberative assembly.
   ▸ (the House) (in the UK) the House of Commons or Lords; (in the US) the House of Representatives.
5. a dynasty.
6. (also house music) a style of fast electronic dance music typically having sparse, repetitive vocals.
7. Astrology  a twelfth division of the celestial sphere.

adj.

1. (of an animal or plant) kept in, frequenting, or infesting buildings.
2. relating to a firm, institution, or society.
3. relating to medical staff resident at a hospital.

v.

1. provide with shelter or accommodation.
2. provide space for.
   ▸enclose or encase.