Test Your Vocabulary

Take Our 10-Question Quiz

Name That Thing

Take our visual vocab quiz

Test Your Knowledge »

True or False?

A quick quiz about stuff worth knowing

Take It Now »

Join Us on FB & Twitter

Get the Word of the Day and More

Facebook | Twitter
  1. Word Games
  2. Word of the Day
  3. New Words & Slang
  4. Video
 

housing

8 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) housing (noun)
  2. 2) housing (noun)
  3. house (verb)
  4. housing development (noun)
  5. housing estate (noun)
  6. housing project (noun)
  7. loose-housing system (noun)
  8. public housing (noun)

1housing

noun

Definition of HOUSING

1
a : shelter, lodging b : dwellings provided for people
2
a : a niche for a sculpture b : the space taken out of a structural member (as a timber) to admit the insertion of part of another
3
: something that covers or protects: as a : a case or enclosure (as for a mechanical part or an instrument) b : a casing (as an enclosed bearing) in which a shaft revolves c : a support (as a frame) for mechanical parts

First Known Use of HOUSING

14th century

Rhymes with HOUSING

rousing

Learn More About HOUSING

Browse

Next Word in the Dictionary: housing development
Previous Word in the Dictionary: housey–housey
All Words Near: housing

Seen & Heard

What made you want to look up housing? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).