A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.[from 10th c.]
The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]
A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]
(figuratively) a place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]
An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
(cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
(chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
“I am fortunate in that I have enough houseroom to have a proper temple area instead of setting things up only as I need them.”
“In short it turns out that play hardware occupies houseroom in a wholly different and much less efficient way.”
“In good times, wives could use this houseroom to bring in cash.”
householding
Management of a household; housekeeping.
The fact of being a householder; ownership or occupation of a house
housewright
A person who builds and repairshouses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).
“The shipwright, housewright and barn builder of the 17th, 18th and 19th century needed trees, and the virgin forests of Connecticut provided a wealth of material to work with.”
“The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil.”
“John Johnson resided in Woburn, Mass., and was by occupation a housewright or carpenter and owned a saw-mill in Woburn.”