House
A house is a home, building or structure the primary function of which is to be occupied for habitation by humans or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to complex structures composed of many systems. English-speaking people generally call any building they routinely occupy "home".
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Famous quotes containing the word house:
“I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
“Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)