n.[C]

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

   他們在路邊蓋了一間房子。

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

   孩子們參觀了動物園的猴舍。

4. 家族（尤指皇族或貴族）
   He belongs to an ancient house.

   他是一個古老家族的後裔。

5. （學校的）供膳的宿舍；（學生為體育比賽而分的）組
6. 機構；所，社；商號
   We are planning to set up a publishing house.

   我們正打算建立一家出版社。

7. （大寫）議院[the S]
   He is speaker of the House of Representatives.

   他是眾議院的議長。

8. （用於特殊目的的）建築物
9. 劇場；（劇場等的）觀眾[S1]
   There was a full house at the opening night of the play.

   該劇首次上演的那個晚上，劇場客滿。

10. 妓院

vt.

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

   窮人住在昏暗的朽爛的房子裡。

2. 把……儲藏在房內
   The library houses about one million books.

   該圖書館收藏了約一百萬冊書。

3. 覆蓋

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.

[名]

1. 房屋。