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Etymology 1

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Proto-Indo-European*(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-West Germanic*hūs
Old Englishhūs
Middle Englishhous
Englishhouse
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    FromMiddle Englishhous,hus, fromOld Englishhūs(“dwelling, shelter, house”), fromProto-West Germanic*hūs, fromProto-Germanic*hūsą(“house”), possibly fromProto-Indo-European*(s)kews-, from*(s)kewH-(“to cover, hide”). More athose.

    Eclipsed non-nativeMiddle Englishmees,meson,measoun(“house”), borrowed fromAnglo-Normanmes,mies,meis,maisun(“house”). The uncommon plural formhousen is fromMiddle Englishhusen,housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simplyhūs.)

    Cognates

    Cognate withScotshoose,oos(“house”),Yolaheouse,houze,howze(“house”),North Frisianhüs(“house”),Saterland FrisianHuus,Húus(“house”),West Frisianhûs(“house”),Alemannic Germanhous,hus,husch,hüs,hüüsch(“house”),Bavarian,Cimbrian,Mòchenohaus(“house”),Central FranconianHaus,Hous,Huus(“home”),Dutchhuis(“house”),Dutch Low Saxonhoes,huus(“house”),GermanHaus,Hauß(“house”),German Low GermanHuus(“house”),Limburgishhoes,Huus(“house”),LuxembourgishHaus(“house”),Vilamovianhaojs,haus,hoüz(“house”),Yiddishהויז(hoyz,“house”),Danish,Norwegian Bokmål,Norwegian Nynorskhus(“house”),Elfdalianaus(“house”),Faroese,Icelandichús(“house”),Swedishhus,hws(“house”),Crimean Gothichus(“house”); alsoCornishkudha(“to conceal, hide”),Welshcuddio(“to hide”),Latincutis(“human skin; hide, leather”),Ancient Greekκεύθω(keúthō,“to cover, hide”),Tocharian Akāc(“hide, skin”),Sanskritस्कुनाति(skunāti,“to cover”).

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    Noun

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    Thehouse of a Japanese rice farmer
    A city-house. In this photo, its garden does not appear

    house (countable anduncountable,pluralhousesor(dialectal)housenor(chiefly humorous)hice)

    2. A structure built or serving as anabode of human beings.[from 9th c.]
      This is myhouse and my family's ancestral home.
      • 1909 September 9,Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, inThe Squire’s Daughter, London:Methuen & Co. […],→OCLC:
        The bighouses, 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, […].
      • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→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-fashionedhouse, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas thehouse I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
      1. (Hong Kong, only used in names) Anapartment building within apublichousing estate.
    4. A container; a thing which houses another.
      • 1892,Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, inScience 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[1], Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company,page25:
        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 wonderfulhouse in which we live.
    6. (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations;housing.
      • 2007 November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, inNewsweek:
        Those homeowners who bought too muchhouse, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.
    8. A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to anapartment orcondominium or building containing these.
      Coordinate terms:apartment,condo,condominium,flat
    10. The people who live in a house; ahousehold.[from 9th c.]
    12. Abuilding used for something other than aresidence(typically with qualifying word).[from 10th c.]
      The former carriagehouse had been made over into a guesthouse.
      On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for themonkeyhouse.
      2. A place ofbusiness; a company or organisation, especially aprinting press, apublishing company, or acouturier.[from 10th c.]
        A small publishinghouse would have a contract with an independent fulfillmenthouse.
      4. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially apublic house, aninn, arestaurant, atheatre, or acasino; or the management thereof.[from 10th c.]
        One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of thehouse, I'm afraid.
        Thehouse always wins.
        • 1964, “Northwest Ohio Quarterly”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name), volume36, page185:
          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 thehouse.
        • 1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, inGay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 9:
          Frazier and Gary worked for me for free — for six months — they didn't take any money from thehouse. They worked for tips.
      5. (historical) Aworkhouse.
        • 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,Reports from the Commissioners, volume29, page169:
          To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to thehouse he would look out for work.
    13. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.[from 10th c.]
      After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in thehouse.
      • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e.,Emma Orczy], chapter2, inThe Case of Miss Elliott, London:T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published1905,→OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909,OCLC11192831, quoted inThe Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia:Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
        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 thehouse, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
    14. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of alegislature.[from 10th c.]
      The petition was so ridiculous that thehouse rejected it after minimal debate.
    15. Adynasty; a family with itsancestors anddescendants, especially a royal or noble one.[from 10th c.]
      A curse lay upon theHouse of Atreus.
    16. (figurative) A place ofrest orrepose.[from 9th c.]
    17. Agrouping ofschoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.[from 19th c.]
      I was a member of Spenserhouse when I was at school.
    18. Ananimal'sshelter orden, or the shell of an animal such as asnail, used for protection.[from 10th c.]
    19. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.[from 14th c.]
      • 1971,Sir Keith Vivian Thomas,Religion and the Decline of Magic,The Folio Society, published2012,→ISBN, page313:
        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.
    20. (cartomancy) The fourthLenormand card.
    21. (chess, now rare) Asquare on achessboard, regarded as the proper place of apiece.[from 16th c.]
    22. (curling) The fourconcentric circles where points are scored on theice.[from 19th c.]
    23. Lotto;bingo.[from 20th c.]
    24. (uncountable) Achildren'sgame in which the playerspretend to be members of ahousehold.
      As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to playhouse.
    25. (US, dialect) A smallstand oftrees in aswamp.
    26. (sudoku) A set of cells in asudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
    27. (American football, slang, with “the”) Theend zone.
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    • (establishment):shop
    • (company or organisation):shop
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    Seehouse/translations § Noun.
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    Etymology 2

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    FromMiddle Englishhousen, fromOld Englishhūsian, fromProto-Germanic*hūsōną(“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). CompareDutchhuizen(“to live, dwell, reside”),German Low Germanhusen(“to live, dwell, reside”),Germanhausen(“to live, dwell, reside”),Norwegian Nynorskhusa(“to house”),Faroesehúsa(“to house”),Icelandichúsa(“to shelter, house”).

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    house (third-person singular simple presenthouses,present participlehousing,simple past and past participlehoused)

    1. (transitive) Tokeep within a structure or container.
      The car ishoused in the garage.
      • 1669,John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: OrThe Gard’ners Almanac; […] [November.]”, inSylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to theRoyal Society,→OCLC,page29:
        Houſe your choiceſtCarnations, or rather ſet them under aPent-houſe againſt a South-wall, ſo as a covering being thrown over them to preſerve them in extremity ofweather, they may yet enjoy the freerair at all other times.
      • 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, inTrains Illustrated, page646:
        Now, covered concrete troughs tohouse the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
    2. (transitive) To admit to residence; toharbor.
    3. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
    4. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
    5. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
    6. (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
      The joists werehoused into the side walls, rather than being hung from them.
    7. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
    8. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
      • 1636,G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, inA Paraphrase upon thePsalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London:[Andrew Hebb […]],→OCLC:
        Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now ishoused in his sepulchre
    9. (nautical) Tostow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
      tohouse the upper spars
    11. (Canada,US, slang, transitive) Toeat; especially, toscarf down.
      • 2019,Joe Lawson,Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
        All you wanna do is drink a fifth,house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.
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    keep within a structure or container
    admit to residence
    take shelter
    dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses
    contain or enclose mechanical parts

    Etymology 3

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    Probably fromThe Warehouse, anightclub inChicago,Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.

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    house (uncountable)

    2. (music)House music.
      • 1998,Colin Larkin,The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, London:Virgin Books,→ISBN, page73:
        […] their music is influenced as much by Roxy Music and the Ramones as it is byhouse and techno pioneers.
      • 2001 March,Philip Sherburne, “Exos,Strength[album review]”, inCMJ New Music Monthly, number91, Great Neck, N.Y.:College Media,→ISSN,page66:
        And while hard, minimaltechno has become increasingly influenced byhouse andOval-esque "glitch" stylistics, Exos keeps it old school onStrength, infusing his own style with the force of hard techno puristsSurgeon and Oliver Ho.
      • 2006, Mark Jonathan Butler,Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music, Bloomington, Ind.:Indiana University Press,→ISBN, page45:
        The first genre of American dance music to become popular in the United Kingdom was Chicagohouse. Although music from Detroit was soon imported as well, it was often treated as subcategory ofhouse, and for many years the most common English term for electronic dance music in general was "house" or "acidhouse".[…] During the formative years of techno andhouse, the musicians involved interacted in various ways.
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    genre of music—seehouse music

    Chinese

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    FromEnglishhouse.

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    house

    1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)mansion; largehouse(Classifier:間／间c)

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    house n

    1. gosling
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    Declension ofhouse (t-stem neuter)
    singularplural
    nominativehousehousata
    genitivehousetehousat
    dativehousetihousatům
    accusativehousehousata
    vocativehousehousata
    locativehousetihousatech
    instrumentalhousetemhousaty

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishhouse, originally from aclipped form ofhouse music.

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    house m inan

    1. house music, house (a genre of music)
      Synonym:house music
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    Declension ofhouse (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
    singularplural
    nominativehousehousy
    genitivehousuhousů
    dativehousuhousům
    accusativehousehousy
    vocativehousehousy
    locativehousuhousech
    instrumentalhousemhousy

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    FromEnglishhouse.Doublet ofhuis andosso.

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    house m (uncountable,nodiminutive)

    1. house music, house (a genre of music)
      Synonym:housemuziek

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    Finnish

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    FromEnglishhouse.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈhɑu̯s/,[ˈhɑ̝u̯s̠]
    • Rhymes:-ɑus
    • Syllabification(key):hou‧se
    • Hyphenation(key):hou‧se

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    house (uncountable)

    1. (music)house music, house(a genre of music)

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    Inflection ofhouse (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
    nominativehouse—
    genitivehousen—
    partitivehousea—
    illativehouseen—
    singularplural
    nominativehouse—
    accusativenom.house—
    gen.housen
    genitivehousen—
    partitivehousea—
    inessivehousessa—
    elativehousesta—
    illativehouseen—
    adessivehousella—
    ablativehouselta—
    allativehouselle—
    essivehousena—
    translativehouseksi—
    abessivehousetta—
    instructive——
    comitativeSee the possessive forms below.
    Possessive forms ofhouse(Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
    first-person singular possessor
    singularplural
    nominativehouseni—
    accusativenom.houseni—
    gen.houseni
    genitivehouseni—
    partitivehouseani—
    inessivehousessani—
    elativehousestani—
    illativehouseeni—
    adessivehousellani—
    ablativehouseltani—
    allativehouselleni—
    essivehousenani—
    translativehousekseni—
    abessivehousettani—
    instructive——
    comitative——
    second-person singular possessor
    singularplural
    nominativehousesi—
    accusativenom.housesi—
    gen.housesi
    genitivehousesi—
    partitivehouseasi—
    inessivehousessasi—
    elativehousestasi—
    illativehouseesi—
    adessivehousellasi—
    ablativehouseltasi—
    allativehousellesi—
    essivehousenasi—
    translativehouseksesi—
    abessivehousettasi—
    instructive——
    comitative——
    first-person plural possessor
    singularplural
    nominativehousemme—
    accusativenom.housemme—
    gen.housemme
    genitivehousemme—
    partitivehouseamme—
    inessivehousessamme—
    elativehousestamme—
    illativehouseemme—
    adessivehousellamme—
    ablativehouseltamme—
    allativehousellemme—
    essivehousenamme—
    translativehouseksemme—
    abessivehousettamme—
    instructive——
    comitative——
    second-person plural possessor
    singularplural
    nominativehousenne—
    accusativenom.housenne—
    gen.housenne
    genitivehousenne—
    partitivehouseanne—
    inessivehousessanne—
    elativehousestanne—
    illativehouseenne—
    adessivehousellanne—
    ablativehouseltanne—
    allativehousellenne—
    essivehousenanne—
    translativehouseksenne—
    abessivehousettanne—
    instructive——
    comitative——
    third-person possessor
    singularplural
    nominativehousensa—
    accusativenom.housensa—
    gen.housensa
    genitivehousensa—
    partitivehouseaan
    houseansa    		—
    inessivehousessaan
    housessansa    		—
    elativehousestaan
    housestansa    		—
    illativehouseensa—
    adessivehousellaan
    housellansa    		—
    ablativehouseltaan
    houseltansa    		—
    allativehouselleen
    housellensa    		—
    essivehousenaan
    housenansa    		—
    translativehousekseen
    houseksensa    		—
    abessivehousettaan
    housettansa    		—
    instructive——
    comitative——

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    house f (uncountable)

    1. house music, house (a genre of music)
      Synonym:house music

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    FromEnglishhouse.

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    house (pluralhouse-ok)

    1. (music)house music, house (a type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)

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    Inflection (stem in-o-, back harmony)
    singularplural
    nominativehousehouse-ok
    accusativehouse-thouse-okat
    dativehouse-nakhouse-oknak
    instrumentalhouse-zalhouse-okkal
    causal-finalhouse-érthouse-okért
    translativehouse-záhouse-okká
    terminativehouse-ighouse-okig
    essive-formalhouse-kénthouse-okként
    essive-modal——
    inessivehouse-banhouse-okban
    superessivehouse-onhouse-okon
    adessivehouse-nálhouse-oknál
    illativehouse-bahouse-okba
    sublativehouse-rahouse-okra
    allativehouse-hozhouse-okhoz
    elativehouse-bólhouse-okból
    delativehouse-rólhouse-okról
    ablativehouse-tólhouse-októl
    non-attributive
    possessive – singular    		house-éhouse-oké
    non-attributive
    possessive – plural    		house-éihouse-okéi
    Possessive forms ofhouse
    possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
    1st person sing.house-omhouse-aim
    2nd person sing.house-odhouse-aid
    3rd person sing.house-ahouse-ai
    1st person pluralhouse-unkhouse-aink
    2nd person pluralhouse-otokhouse-aitok
    3rd person pluralhouse-ukhouse-aik

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    1. ^Laczkó, Krisztina with Attila Mártonfi (2006),Helyesírás [Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó,→ISBN

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    house

    1. alternative form ofhous

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    house

    1. alternative form ofhousen

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Wikipedianb

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    FromEnglishhouse,house music.Doublet ofhus.

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    house m (indeclinable)(uncountable)

    1. house music, house (a genre of music)

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    FromEnglishhouse.Doublet ofhus.

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    house m

    1. house music, house (a genre of music)

    Polish

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    Pseudo-anglicism, derived fromhouse music.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈxaws/
    • Rhymes:-aws
    • Syllabification:house

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    house m inan

    1. house music,house(genre of music)

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    Declension ofhouse
    singular
    nominativehouse
    genitivehouse'u
    dativehouse'owi
    accusativehouse
    instrumentalhouse'em
    locativehousie
    vocativehousie

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    adjectives

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    • house in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishhouse.

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    house m (uncountable)

    1. house music,house(a genre of music)
      Synonym:música house

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishhouse.

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    house m (uncountable)

    1. house music

    Declension

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    singular onlyindefinitedefinite
    nominative-accusativehousehouseul
    genitive-dativehousehouseului
    vocativehouseule

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishhouse music.

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    house m (uncountable)

    1. house music, house (a genre of music)
      Synonym:música house

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    According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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    Etymology

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    FromEnglishhouse music.

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    house c

    1. house music, house (a genre of music)

    Declension

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    Declension ofhouse
    nominativegenitive
    singularindefinitehousehouses
    definitehousenhousens
    pluralindefinite——
    definite——

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