Synonyms of the word

house

• n. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
• n. The people who live in a house; a household.
• n. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
• n. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or…
• n. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre,…
• n. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
• n. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a…
• n. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
• n. (figuratively) a place of rest or repose.
• n. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
• n. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
• n. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
• n. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
• n. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
• n. Lotto; bingo.
• n. (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
• v. (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
• v. (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
• v. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
• v. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
• v. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
• v. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
• v. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
• v. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
• n. (music) House music.

abode

• n. (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
• n. (obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
• n. (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of abide.
• n. (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be ominous.

accommodate

• v. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
• v. (transitive) To provide housing for.
• v. (transitive) to provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
• v. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige;.
• v. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings…
• v. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
• v. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
• adj. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

admit

• v. (transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration;…
• v. (transitive) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for…
• v. (transitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible…
• v. (transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
• v. (intransitive) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).
• v. (transitive) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

audience

• n. A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a…
• n. (now rare) Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.
• n. A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
• n. A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
• n. The readership of a book or other written publication.
• n. A following.

building

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of building.
• n. A closed structure with walls and a roof.
• v. present participle of build.

business

• n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
• n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
• n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
• n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
• n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
• n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
• n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
• n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
• n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
• n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
• n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
• n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
• n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
• n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
• n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
• adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
• adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
• adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

community

• n. A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
• n. A commune, or residential or religious collective.
• n. The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
• n. (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
• n. (Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or…
• n. (obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
• n. (obsolete) common character; likeness.
• n. (obsolete) commonness; frequency.

concern

• n. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. The adposition before…
• n. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
• n. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
• n. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
• v. (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of;…
• v. (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
• v. (transitive) To make somebody worried.

domicile

• n. (formal) A home or residence.
• n. (law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited…
• v. To have a domicile in a particular place.

domiciliate

• v. (intransitive) To establish a permanent residence.
• v. (transitive) To establish a permanent residence for (someone).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To settle (oneself) into a mode of thinking or the like.

dwelling

• n. A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
• v. present participle of dwell.

edifice

• n. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially an imposing one; a large or fine building,…
• n. An abstract structure; a school of thought.

family

• n. (countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption);…
• n. (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
• n. (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon…
• n. (countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing…
• n. (countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
• n. (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
• n. Used attributively.
• adj. Suitable for children and adults.
• adj. Conservative, traditional.
• adj. (slang) Homosexual.

firm

• n. (Britain, business) A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
• n. (business, economics) A business enterprise, however organized.
• n. (slang) A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism.
• adj. steadfast, secure, hard (in position).
• adj. fixed (in opinion).
• adj. solid, rigid (material state).
• v. (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
• v. (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
• v. (intransitive) To improve after decline.
• v. (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so…

folk

• adj. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
• adj. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
• adj. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
• adj. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
• n. (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
• n. The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
• n. (plural only, plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
• n. (music) Folk music.
• n. (plural only) People in general.
• n. (plural only) A particular group of people.

habitation

• n. (uncountable) The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
• n. (countable) A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

home

• n. (heading) A dwelling.
• n. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or…
• n. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat;…
• n. (heading) A focus point.
• n. (US, slang) Shortened form of homeboy.
• n. (computing) Clipping of home directory.
• v. (usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
• adj. Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
• adj. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
• adv. to home.
• adv. in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
• adv. close; closely; to the center; deep.
• adv. (Britain, soccer) into the goal.
• adv. (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position.

household

• n. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.;…
• n. (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
• adj. Belonging to the same house and family.
• adj. Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.

kinfolk

• n. (US, also in plural) Relatives, relations.

kinsfolk

• n. Alternative spelling of kinfolk.

legislative

• adj. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking.
• n. That branch of government which is responsible for making, or having the power to make, a law or laws.

legislature

• n. A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
• n. (Canada) A legislative building.

management

• n. (uncountable, management) Administration; the process or practice of managing.
• n. (management) The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
• n. (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.

mansion

• n. A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
• n. (Britain) A luxurious flat (apartment).
• n. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
• n. (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
• n. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
• n. (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings…
• n. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

menage

• n. Alternative form of ménage.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

phratry

• n. (Ancient Greece) A clan or kinship group consisting of a number of families claiming descent from a common…
• n. (anthropology, dated) A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate…

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

region

• n. Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable…
• n. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
• n. (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number…
• n. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
• n. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
• n. (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
• n. (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental…

sept

• n. A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in…
• v. (nonstandard, rare) simple past tense and past participle of seep.

shelter

• n. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
• n. An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
• v. (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
• v. (intransitive) To take cover.

sign

• n. (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication.
• n. A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
• n. (astrology) An astrological sign.
• n. (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity. (Note: it is improper to place a sign on the number zero).
• n. A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically,…
• n. (uncountable) Sign language in general.
• n. An omen.
• n. (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, is unlikely to be noticed…
• n. A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
• v. To make a mark.
• v. To make the sign of the cross.
• v. To indicate.

theater

• n. A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical…
• n. A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to…
• n. A lecture theatre.
• n. (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
• n. (US) A cinema.
• n. Drama or performance as a profession or artform.

theatre

• n. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain) Alternative spelling of theater.
• n. (US) Often used specifically of playhouses and drama, so as to distinguish from moviehouses and cinema.

unit

• n. (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
• n. The number one.
• n. Clipping of international unit.
• n. An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
• n. (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
• n. (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table…
• n. (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
• n. (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used.…
• n. (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit…
• n. (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
• n. (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element.
• n. (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of…
• n. (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive…
• n. (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
• n. (Britain) A unit of alcohol.
• n. (Britain, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment…
• n. (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
• adj. For each unit.
• adj. (mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.