Country
(adv.) A tract of land |
Country
(adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town. |
Country
(adv.) The inhabitants or people of a state or a region |
Country
(adv.) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country. |
Country
(adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn. |
Country
(adv.) The rock through which a vein runs. |
Country
(a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city |
Country
(a.) Destitute of refinement |
Country
(a.) Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country. |
Country-base
(n.) Same as Prison base. |
Country-dance
(n.) See Contradance. |
Country seat
() A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. |
Harvest-home
(n.) The gathering and bringing home of the harvest |
Harvest-home
(n.) The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest |
Harvest-home
(n.) A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. |
Harvest-home
(n.) The opportunity of gathering treasure. |
Home
(n.) See Homelyn. |
Home
(n.) One's own dwelling place |
Home
(n.) One's native land |
Home
(n.) The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. |
Home
(n.) The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant |
Home
(n.) A place of refuge and rest |
Home
(n.) The home base |
Home
(a.) Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country |
Home
(a.) Close |
Home
(adv.) To one's home or country |
Home
(adv.) Close |
Home
(adv.) To the place where it belongs |
Home-bound
(a.) Kept at home. |
Home-bred
(a.) Bred at home |
Home-bred
(a.) Not polished |
Home-coming
(n.) Return home. |
Home-driven
(a.) Driven to the end, as a nail |
Home-dwelling
(a.) Keeping at home. |
Home-felt
(a.) Felt in one's own breast |
Home-keeping
(a.) Staying at home |
Home-keeping
(n.) A staying at home. |
Home-speaking
(n.) Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. |
Houses
(pl. ) of House |
House
(n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind |
House
(n.) Household affairs |
House
(n.) Those who dwell in the same house |
House
(n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred |
House
(n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature |
House
(n.) A firm, or commercial establishment. |
House
(n.) A public house |
House
(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. |
House
(n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. |
House
(n.) An audience |
House
(n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul. |
bell ringer
bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
homer
home run | a base hit on which the batter scores a run |
| house | play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults, the children were playing house |
| home game | a game played at home |
country-dance
country dancing
contredanse
contra danse
contradance | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
| painting house painting | the occupation of a house painter, house painting was the only craft he knew |
| home invasion | burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home |
| home study | a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom |
harvest harvesting
harvest home | the gathering of a ripened crop |
| home banking | banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer) |
| house arrest | confinement to your own home |
Monmouth Court House
Battle of Monmouth Court House
Battle of Monmouth | a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution () that ended with the withdrawal of British forces |
house finch
linnet Carpodacus mexicanus | small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico |
English sparrow
house sparrow
Passer domesticus | small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe |
house wren
Troglodytes aedon | common American wren that nests around houses |
house martin
Delichon urbica | common small European martin that builds nests under the eaves of houses |
milk snake
house snake
milk adder
checkered adder
Lampropeltis triangulum | nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot, southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes |
house centipede
Scutigera coleoptrata | long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars |
domestic cat
house cat
Felis domesticus
Felis catus | any domesticated member of the genus Felis |
housefly
house fly
Musca domestica | common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases |
European house cricket
Acheta domestica | lives in human dwellings, naturalized in parts of America |
house mouse
Mus musculus | brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide |
apartment building
apartment house | a building that is divided into apartments |
apiary
bee house | a shed containing a number of beehives |
| beach house | a house built on or near a beach |
c Bedlam
booby hatch
crazy house
cuckoo's nest
funny farm
funny house
loony bin
madhouse
nut house
nuthouse
sanatorium snake pit | pejorative terms for an insane asylum |
boarding house
boardinghouse | a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests |
brokerage house
brokerage | place where a broker conducts his business |
building supply store
building supply house | a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures |
camper
camping bus
motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
chapterhouse
fraternity house
frat house | a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity |
charnel house
charnel | a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited |
cinema
movie theater
movie theatre
movie house
picture palace | a theater where films are shown |
coach house
carriage house
remise | a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles |
| coal house | a shed for storing coal |
conference center
conference house | a center where conferences can be conducted |
| country house | a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country |
country store
general store
trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
| dacha | Russian country house |
death house
death row | the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution |
| deck-house | a superstructure on the upper deck of a ship |
detached house
single dwelling | a house that stands alone |
detention home
detention house
house of detention
detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
discount house
discount store
discounter
wholesale house | a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price |
dollhouse
doll's house | a small model of a house used as a toy by children |
| dollhouse doll's house | a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything |
duplex house
duplex semidetached house | a house with two units sharing a common wall |
dwelling
home
domicile
abode
habitation
dwelling house | housing that someone is living in, he built a modest dwelling near the pond, they raise money to provide homes for the homeless |
| field house | an athletic facility where athletes prepare for sport |
| field house sports arena | a building for indoor sports |