house – English noun declension

English noun forms of house

Noun: house
Singularhouse
Pluralhouses; hice

Sample Sentences

  • This is my house and my family's ancestral home.
  • The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,[…]. [1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:]
  • Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • The purposes of food are to promote growth, to supply force and heat, and to furnish material to repair the waste which is constantly taking place in the body. Every breath, every thought, every motion, wears out some portion of the delicate and wonderful house in which we live. [1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 25:]
  • Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions. [2007 November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, in Newsweek:]
  • one that feared God with all his house [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:2:]
  • The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house.
  • On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.
  • A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.
  • I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum. [1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:]
  • One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.
  • The house always wins.
  • The farce comedy which followed, When We're Married by Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation. The production filled the house. [1964, “Northwest Ohio Quarterly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 36, page 185:]
  • Frazier and Gary worked for me for free — for six months — they didn't take any money from the house. They worked for tips. [1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 9:]
  • To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work. [1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners, volume 29, page 169:]
  • After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
  • Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels. [1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 2, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:]
  • The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.
  • A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.
  • Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain. [1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
  • Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […]. [1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.
  • Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations. [1971, Sir Keith Vivian Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, The Folio Society, published 2012, →ISBN, page 313:]
  • As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.

Nouns inflected like house

house,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *hūsą
4. Proto-West Germanic *hūs
5. Old English hūs
6. Middle English hous
7. English house
8. From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). More at hose.
9. Eclipsed non-native Middle English mees, meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman mes, mies, meis, maisun (“house”). The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.)
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with Scots hoose, oos (“house”), Yola heouse, houze, howze (“house”), North Frisian hüs (“house”), Saterland Frisian Huus, Húus (“house”), West Frisian hûs (“house”), Alemannic German hous, hus, husch, hüs, hüüsch (“house”), Bavarian, Cimbrian, Mòcheno haus (“house”), Central Franconian Haus, Hous, Huus (“home”), Dutch huis (“house”), Dutch Low Saxon hoes, huus (“house”), German Haus, Hauß (“house”), German Low German Huus (“house”), Limburgish hoes, Huus (“house”), Luxembourgish Haus (“house”), Vilamovian haojs, haus, hoüz (“house”), Yiddish הויז (hoyz, “house”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hus (“house”), Elfdalian aus (“house”), Faroese and Icelandic hús (“house”), Crimean Gothic hus (“house”); also Cornish kudha (“to conceal, hide”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin cutis (“human skin; hide, leather”), Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to cover, hide”), Tocharian A kāc (“hide, skin”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “to cover”). See: Middle English Nouns 'hous', Old English Nouns 'hūs', Dutch Nouns 'huis', German Nouns 'Haus', Latin Nouns 'cutis'.

Verbs referencing "house"

German Nouns Haus, Dutch Nouns house, Finnish Nouns house, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns house, Dutch Nouns osso, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hus, German Nouns House, Old Norse Nouns hús, Russian Nouns хаус, Bulgarian Nouns хижа.