House
noun — Plural: Houses
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- (A building for human beings to live in, dwelling, building made for a particular purpose, division of a lawmaking body or group, number of people at a performance, a business firm, audience at theater, etc., dynasty. Often under guard. -House of Lords the upper house of the British Parliament, consisting of the Lords temporal and spiritual. -House of Representatives the lower legislative branch in many bicameral governmental bodies) buy a house ផ្ទះ
Example: At our house, From house to house, Keep house, Cow house, lighthouse, etc, Religious house; of Assembly, parliament, Business house, A full house, A noble and ancient house. - 2.
- ផ្ទះ, មន្ទីរសភា
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- (chicken) house ទ្រុង
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- (រាជវង្ស) ដំណាក់
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- (ផ្លូវការ) គេហដ្ឋាន, ទីលំនៅ, សម្រាប់នៅ
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- (lower) house (of Congress) សភា
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- House (of orange) រាជវង្សាត្រកូលណាមួយ
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- (banking) house គ្រឹស្ថានជំនួញ
verb — past tense: housed ; past participle: housed ; present participle: housing ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) (To shelter, to receive, to store. to dwell) house orphans ឱ្យលំនៅជ្រកកោន
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- ផ្តល់ជម្រក
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- House (electric wire) រុំ
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- House (machinery) ដាក់ក្នុងអាគារ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun — Plural: Houses
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- A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.
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- Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house.
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- Those who dwell in the same house; a household.
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- A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.
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- One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body.
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- A firm, or commercial establishment.
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- A public house; an inn; a hotel.
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- A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.
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- A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
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- An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.
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- The body, as the habitation of the soul.
verb — past tense: housed ; past participle: housed ; present participle: housing ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To drive to a shelter.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To admit to residence; to harbor.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To have a position in one of the houses.
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- The grave