House

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:

    The house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money!
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Between the house and barn the gale
    Got him by something he had on
    And blew him out on the icy crust
    That cased the world, and he was gone!
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)