Definition of houses

"houses" in the noun sense

1. house

a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families

"he has a house on Cape Cod"

"she felt she had to get out of the house"

2. firm, house, business firm

the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments

"he worked for a brokerage house"

3. house

the members of a religious community living together

4. house

the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema

"the house applauded"

"he counted the house"

5. house

an official assembly having legislative powers

"a bicameral legislature has two houses"

6. house

aristocratic family line

"the House of York"

7. house

play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults

"the children were playing house"

8. sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house

astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

9. house

the management of a gambling house or casino

"the house gets a percentage of every bet"

10. family, household, house, home, menage

a social unit living together

"he moved his family to Virginia"

"It was a good Christian household"

"I waited until the whole house was asleep"

"the teacher asked how many people made up his home"

"the family refused to accept his will"

11. theater, theatre, house

a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented

"the house was full"

12. house

a building in which something is sheltered or located

"they had a large carriage house"

"houses" in the verb sense

1. house

contain or cover

"This box houses the gears"

2. house, put up, domiciliate

provide housing for

"The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"

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Quotations for houses

Better one house well filled,
Than two houses spilled. [ Proverb ]

Fools build houses, and wise men enjoy them. [ Proverb ]

Learning is better than houses, lands, or money. [ Proverb ]

Lawyers' houses are built on the heads of fools. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hard with hard builds no houses; soft binds hard. [ Proverb ]

High houses are usually empty in the upper storey. [ German Proverb ]

It is the men, not the houses, that makes the city. [ Proverb ]

As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; -
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. [ Goldsmith ]

It would have been pity to have, spoiled two houses with them. [ Proverb ]

Old houses mended cost little less than new before they're ended. [ Gibber ]

Gossips and tale-bearers set afire all the houses they come into. [ Proverb ]

We underpin our houses with granite; what of our habits and our lives? [ Thoreau ]

God keep me from four houses: a usurer's, a tavern, a spital, and a prison. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

The waves of life toss our destinies like seaweeds detached from the rock. Houses are ships which receive but passengers. [ E. Souvestre ]

Inexorable necessity has power over man; it has no dread of the immortals, who have houses in Olympus away from sad grief. [ Stoboeus ]

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases. [ Diogenes ]

Houses are built to live in more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. [ Bacon ]

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but toot into our affections. [ Charron ]

The same conditions should be made in marriage that are made in the case of houses that one rents for a term of three, six, or nine years, with the privilege of becoming the purchaser if the house suits. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]

The Carlyles were men who lavished their heart and conscience upon their work; they builded themselves, their days, their thoughts and sorrows, into their houses; they leavened the soil with the sweat of their rugged brows. [ John Burroughs ]

Many men want wealth, - not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath. [ Beecher ]

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are continguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity. [ Plutarch ]

houses in Scrabble®

The word houses is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters houses:

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houses in Words With Friends™

The word houses is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters houses:

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Words within the letters of houses

2 letter words in houses (7 words)

3 letter words in houses (9 words)

4 letter words in houses (6 words)

5 letter words in houses (3 words)

6 letter words in houses (1 word)

houses + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence houses

Words that start with houses (4 words)

Words with houses in them (1 word)

Words that end with houses (147 words)

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Word Growth involving houses

Shorter words in houses

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