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house
noun (HOME) /haʊs/ (plural houses /ˈhaʊzɪz/ )Definition
A1 [C] a building that people, usually one family, live in: a detached/semi-detached house to buy/rent a house house prices She lives in a little house in (US on) Cross Street. → See also farmhouse noun, roadhouseHouses and homes › [C usually singular] all the people living in a house: Try not to wake the whole house when you come in!Groups of people › [C] a building where animals are kept: the monkey/lion house at the zoo a hen houseAnimal dwellings - naturalAnimal Dwellings - man-made
(Definition of house noun (HOME) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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