I.
noun
1 building that is made for one family to live in
ADJECTIVE
▪ beautiful , comfortable , elegant , fancy ( esp. AmE ), fine , grand , handsome , lovely , luxurious , magnificent , posh ( esp. BrE ), pretty
▪ dream
▪
They built their own dream ~ overlooking the river.
▪ dingy , gloomy , ugly
▪ derelict , dilapidated , ramshackle , shabby , untidy ( BrE )
▪ abandoned
▪ detached , semi-detached
▪ row ( AmE ), terrace ( BrE ), terraced ( BrE )
▪ big , enormous , gigantic , huge , large , palatial , spacious
▪ rambling
▪
It was easy to get lost in the rambling ~.
▪ little , modest , small , tiny
▪
They lived in a modest semi-detached ~ in the suburbs.
▪ single-storey/single-story , single-storeyed/single-storied , two-storey/two-story , etc.
▪ four-bedroom , four-bedroomed , eight-room , eight-roomed , etc.
▪ brick , gabled ( esp. BrE ), half-timbered ( esp. BrE ), red-brick , thatched
▪ expensive
▪ private
▪ council ( BrE )
▪ rented
▪ empty , unoccupied , vacant
▪ country , suburban , town (usually townhouse in AmE )
▪ great , manor ( BrE ), mansion ( esp. BrE )
▪
The great ~ stood on the edge of the town.
▪ farm (usually farmhouse )
▪ ranch ( AmE )
▪ tract ( AmE )
▪ ancestral
▪ communal , group ( AmE ), shared ( BrE )
▪
I live in a group/shared ~ ( = with people who are not my family ).
▪ summer
▪ beach
▪ tree
▪ halfway , safe
▪
a halfway ~ for prisoners returning to society
▪
The police provided a safe ~ for the informer.
▪ haunted
VERB + HOUSE
▪ live in , occupy
▪
a ~ occupied by students
▪ share
▪
She shares a ~ with three other nurses.
▪ buy , rent
▪ sell
▪ have , own
▪ let ( esp. BrE ), let out ( esp. BrE ), rent out
▪
We let out our ~ when we moved to America.
▪
We're only planning on renting the ~ out for a few years.
▪ repossess ( esp. BrE )
▪
Their ~ was repossessed when they couldn't keep up their mortgage payments.
▪ move ( BrE ), move into , move out of
▪
It's stressful moving ~.
▪
We had to move out of our ~.
▪ set up
▪
They want to set up ~ together.
▪ keep
▪
She kept ~ (= cooked, cleaned, etc.) for her elderly parents.
▪ play
▪
The children were playing ~, giving dinner to their dolls.
▪ build
▪ demolish , knock down , tear down
▪ maintain
▪ decorate ( esp. BrE ), do up ( BrE ), redecorate , refurbish , renovate
▪
They bought an old ~ and are gradually renovating it.
▪ furnish
▪ clean
▪ insulate , rewire
▪ add onto , extend
▪
We're hoping to extend the ~.
▪
Our challenge was to add onto the ~ in a respectful way.
▪ search
▪
Police officers have been searching the ~ for clues.
▪ wake up
▪
You'll wake up the whole ~ ( = all the people in the house ) with that noise.
HOUSE + VERB
▪ be situated , lie , stand
▪
The ~ stood a short distance from the woods.
▪ face sth , overlook sth
▪
The ~ faces south, making the most of the sun.
▪
~s overlooking the park
▪ loom
▪
The ~ loomed over him as he waited at the front door.
▪ be worth sth
▪ collapse , fall down
▪ burn down , catch fire , catch on fire ( AmE )
▪ come into view
HOUSE + NOUN
▪ agent ( BrE )
▪ buyer , owner
▪
The bank offers attractive rates to first-time ~ buyers.
▪ tenant ( BrE )
▪ building , construction
▪ decoration ( BrE ), improvement ( esp. BrE ), renovation , repairs
▪ builder , painter
▪ contents ( esp. BrE )
▪ design , plan , planning
▪ hunting
▪ move ( esp. BrE )
▪
They helped us with our ~ move.
▪ prices , rents ( esp. BrE ), values ( esp. BrE )
▪ purchase
▪ sales
▪ insurance ( esp. BrE ) (usually home insurance in AmE )
▪ front , interior
▪ number
▪ keys
▪ guest
▪ call
▪
In the morning, the doctor makes ~ calls.
▪ arrest
▪
The former dictator is under ~ arrest in his country mansion.
▪ dust
▪ blaze ( BrE ), fire
▪ party
▪ husband
▪
He's happy being a ~ husband while his wife goes out to work.
▪ plant
▪ fly , mouse , sparrow , etc.
PREPOSITION
▪ at sb's/the ~
▪
I finally tracked him down at his ~ in Denver.
▪ from ~ to ~
▪
She went from ~ to ~ collecting signatures for her campaign.
▪ in a/the ~
▪
It was so hot outside we stayed in the ~.
2 in a theatre/theater
ADJECTIVE
▪ empty
▪ full , packed
VERB + HOUSE
▪ play to
▪
They played to a packed ~.
HOUSE + NOUN
▪ lights
▪ manager
PHRASES
▪ bring the ~ down (= please the audience very much)
▪ front of ~ (= the area used by the audience)
▪
I work front of ~.
▪
the front-of-house staff
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ permanently , temporarily
▪
The fish can be temporarily ~d in a smaller aquarium.
▪ individually , separately
▪
The rabbits were ~d individually.
▪ adequately ( esp. BrE )
▪
At no time in the 19th century were the working classes adequately ~d.
▪ badly ( esp. BrE )
▪
The losers in this society are the homeless and badly ~d.
House is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ building , ↑ facility , ↑ gallery , ↑ museum
House is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ archive , ↑ collection , ↑ exhibit , ↑ exhibition , ↑ inmate , ↑ machinery , ↑ museum , ↑ refugee