noun.a building that serves as living quarters for one or a few families: home

• invited them to her house for dinner
• a two-family house

noun.a shelter or refuge (such as a nest or den) of a wild animal

• a carriage house
• the house occupied by Jupiter

noun.a natural covering (such as a test or shell) that encloses and protects an animal or a colony of zooids

• woke up the whole house
• the house of Tudor

verb.to provide with living quarters or shelter

• a place to house their guests
• the barn where they house their boat

verb.to store in a building

• … so timorous a soul housed in so impressive a body.
• buildings that house government offices

verb.to encase, enclose, or shelter as if by putting in a house