Definition of house:

• To take shelter or lodgings; to reside. House of call, a, house where journeymen of a particular trade assemble when out of work, for the purpose of obtaining employment. House of Correction, a, prison for the punishment of idle and disorderly persons. To bring down the house, to provoke a general burst of applause.
• To shelter; to store.
• The grave.
• A building for dwelling in; a dwelling- place; household affairs; an edifice appropriated to the service of God; a temple; a church; a monastery; a college; a family or race; a household; a body of men united in their legislative capacity; a quorum of a legislative body; a firm or commercial establishment; estate; a square on a chess- board; the station of a planet in the heavens, or the twelfth part of the heavens.

Usage examples for house

1. " It was his house.  Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah

2. We will find a house.  The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Henry Harland

3. Peter and Polly and father and mother were going to her house on that day.  Peter and Polly in Winter by Rose Lucia

4. At what time do I come and how shall I find your house?  The Evil Shepherd by E. Phillips Oppenheim