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شبکه مترجمین ایران

1 general::   noun building that is made for one family to live in ADJ. beautiful, comfortable, delightful, elegant, fine, grand, handsome, lovely, luxurious, magnificent, posh, pretty, splendid | dream They built their own dream house overlooking the river. | depressing, dingy, gloomy, ugly | derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, shabby, untidy | detached, semi-detached, terrace/terraced | big, enormous, gigantic, huge, large, palatial, spacious | rambling It was easy to get lost in the rambling house. | little, modest, small, tiny They lived in a modest semi-detached house in the suburbs. | single-storey, single-storeyed, two-storey, etc. | four-bedroom, four-bedroomed, eight-room, eight-roomed, etc. | gabled, half-timbered, red-brick, thatched | exclusive, expensive | private | council (= rented from the local council) | rented | empty, unoccupied, vacant | country, suburban, town | great, manor, mansion The great house stood on the edge of the village. | farm (also farmhouse), ranch | ancestral | communal | summer | tree | halfway, safe a halfway house for prisoners returning to society The police provided a safe house for the informer. VERB + HOUSE live in, occupy a house occupied by students | share She shares a house with three other nurses. | buy, rent | sell | let (out) We let out our house when we moved to America. | repossess Their house was repossessed when they couldn't keep up their mortgage payments. | move, move into, move out of It's stressful moving house. | set up They want to set up house together | keep She kept house (= cooked, cleaned, etc.) for her elderly parents. | play (at) The children were playing house, giving dinner to their teddies. | build | demolish, knock down, tear down | maintain | decorate, do up, redecorate, refurbish, renovate They bought a dilapidated house when they got married, and are gradually doing it up. | furnish | insulate, rewire | extend We're hoping to extend the house. HOUSE + VERB be situated, lie, stand The house stood a short distance from the wood. | face sth, overlook sth The house faces south, making the most of the sun. houses overlooking the park | loom The house loomed over him as he waited at the front door. | be worth sth | collapse, fall down | burn down, catch fire | come into view HOUSE + NOUN agent | buyer, owner The bank offers attractive rates to first-time house buyers. | tenant | building, construction | decoration, improvement, renovation, repairs | builder, decorator, painter | contents | design, plan, planning | hunting | move They helped us with our house move. | prices, rents, values | purchase | sales | mortgage | insurance | repossession | front, interior | number | keys | guest | call In the morning, the doctor makes house calls. | arrest The former dictator is under house arrest in his country mansion. | dust | blaze, fire | party, -warming They've moved house and have invited us to their house-warming on Saturday. | husband He's happy being a house husband while his wife goes out to work. | plant | fly, mouse, sparrow, etc. PREP. at sb's/the ~ I finally tracked him down at his house in London. | from ~ to ~ She went from house to house collecting signatures for her campaign. | in a/the ~ It was so hot outside we stayed in the house. PHRASES house-to-house Police are making house-to-house enquiries following the discovery of the body. all the people who live in one house ADJ. friendly, happy VERB + HOUSE wake (up) You'll wake up the whole house with that noise. in a theatre/cinema ADJ. empty | full, packed VERB + HOUSE play to They played to a packed house. HOUSE + NOUN lights | manager PHRASES bring the house down (= please the audience very much), front-of-house (= the parts of a theatre used by the audience) the front-of-house staff,   verb ADV. adequately At no time in the 19th century were the working classes adequately housed. | badly, inadequately The losers in this society are the old, the sick, the jobless, the homeless and badly housed. | temporarily The fish can be temporarily housed in a smaller aquarium.

Oxford Collocations Dictionary

2 general:: noun home: My house has four bedrooms. noun building: We went to a coffee house., noun parliament: He was in the House of Commons.

Simple Definitions

3 general:: In addition to the idiom beginning with HOUSE, Also see BOARDINGHOUSE REACH; BRING DOWN THE HOUSE; CLEAN HOUSE; EAT SOMEONE OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME; GET ON (LIKE A HOUSE AFIRE); KEEP HOUSE; ON THE HOUSE; OPEN HOUSE; PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES; PUT ONE'S HOUSE IN ORDER; SAFE AS HOUSES.

American Heritage Idioms

4 general:: house verbs live in a house • They live in a really big house in Hampstead. buy a house • We bought this house when Liam was just a baby. rent a house • While he was working in London, Ken rented a house in Fulham. sell a house • We decided to sell the house and move back to Seattle. put your house on the market (= make it available for people to buy ) • They put the house on the market and began looking for an apartment. move into/out of a house • We’re moving into our new house next week. build a house • They’re building a house on land overlooking Galway Bay. put up a house (= build a house, especially when it seems very quick ) • I think they’ve ruined the village by putting up these new houses. renovate a house (= repair a house so that it is in good condition again ) • He makes money by renovating old houses and selling them on. decorate a house (= put paint or wallpaper on the inside walls of a house ) • If we’re going to decorate the house, let’s get professionals in. do up a house informal (= decorate it ) • We’ve been doing up the house bit by bit since we first moved in. ADJECTIVES/NOUN + house a private house (= one owned by someone ) • It was a residential neighborhood of private houses. a rented house (= one owned by someone who rents it to people ) • She shares a rented house with three other students. house + NOUN house prices • House prices have tripled over the last ten years. a house owner • All house owners must pay council tax. a house purchase • A solicitor can help you with the legal aspects of a house purchase. house hunting (= the activity of looking at houses that you might buy ) • Have you had any success with your house hunting?

transnet.ir

5 general:: house a building that someone lives in, especially one that is intended for one family, person, or couple to live in: • Annie and Rick have just bought their first house. • The price of houses is going up all the time. detached house British English a house that is not joined to another house: • a detached four-bedroomed house semi-detached house British English a house that is joined to another house on one side terraced house, row house terraced house British English , row house American English one of a row of houses that are joined together townhouse one of a row of houses that are joined together. In British English, townhouse is often used about a large and impressive house in a fashionable area of a city: • an 18th-century townhouse in Bath cottage a small house in the country – used especially about houses in the UK: • a little cottage in the country • a thatched cottage (= with a roof made of straw ) bungalow a small house that is all on one level: • Bungalows are suitable for many elderly people. country house a large house in the countryside, especially one that is of historical interest: • The hotel was originally an Edwardian country house. mansion a very large house: • the family’s Beverly Hills mansion mobile home ( also trailer American English ) a type of house that can be pulled by a large vehicle and moved to another place ranch house American English a long narrow house that is all on one level: • a California ranch house duplex American English a house that is divided into two separate homes an apartment apartment, flat apartment especially American English , flat British English a set of rooms where someone lives that is part of a house or bigger building. In British English, people usually say flat . Apartment is used about large and expensive flats, or in advertisements: • His apartment is on the eighth floor. • In London, I shared a flat with some other students. condominium ( also condo informal ) American English one apartment in a building with several apartments, owned by the people who live in them: • a 10-unit condominium complex a group of houses development a group of new houses or other buildings that are all planned and built together on the same piece of land: • The site is to be used for a new housing development. estate British English an area where a large group of houses have all been built together at the same time: • She grew up on a council estate in Leeds.

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