HOUSES Synonyms: 223 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of house

as in companies

a commercial or industrial activity or organization a publishing house that specializes in school textbooks

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as in families

a group of persons who come from the same ancestor the present British royal family belongs to the House of Windsor

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as in residences

the place where one lives come over to my house so I can show you my new furniture

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as in households

those who live as a family in one house the whole house is in a state of excited anticipation for the holidays

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as in nests

the shelter or resting place of a wild animal prairie dogs make their house underground

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verb

present tense third-person singular of house

as in shelters

to provide with living quarters or shelter some of the freshmen were temporarily housed in local motels while the new dorm was being finished

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as in confines

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers the famous document is housed in a special display case

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Recent Examples of houses

Noun

Some in anthropology take this further, describing houses and homes as social and symbolic spaces rather than merely physical structures. — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 Though California is home to some of the worst cities for first-time homebuyers, there are still houses for as low as $285,000. — Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026 There’s nothing more beautiful than driving a Georgia mile with nothing but greenery, cows, and old houses around you. — Sid Evans, Southern Living, 21 July 2026 But our excitement fades as Nolan’s camera captures the men raping women, looting houses and reveling in the violence. — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 July 2026 With concrete frames and nonexistent windows, the buildings look like empty, oversized Brutalist doll houses waiting for someone to come sprinkle life into their interiors. — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 21 July 2026 Tuck is focusing on wall paintings the middle class had inside smaller houses and how the subject matter differed from murals inside elite homes. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 Two-bedroom condominiums, along with several houses and cottages, are also available for long-term stays and group getaways. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2026 Under France’s legislative process, however, the National Assembly has the final say when the two houses of parliament disagree. — ABC News, 15 July 2026

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An arson charge was lodged Tuesday against a former Army soldier accused of going to a federal building in Manhattan that houses immigration court proceedings and setting a sidewalk fire, igniting fireworks and firing a pellet gun. — ABC News, 21 July 2026 The university houses the National Center for Equitable Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems, which focuses on the development and use of socially responsible and equitable AI. — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 The building houses several government offices — including the New York office of the FBI — and the immigration court where agents have carried out chaotic and sometimes violent arrests in the hallway as migrants leave hearings. — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026 The Musée d'Orsay focuses on art from 1848 to 1914 and houses the most extensive Impressionist art collection in the world. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026 Researchers achieve this by mounting a lightweight backpack, which houses a microcontroller, a radio receiver, and a power source, on the insect. — New Atlas, 18 July 2026 Schrage and his wife funded the Schrage Basketball Wing, which is an addition to the university’s Athletics-Recreation Center that houses the men’s and women’s basketball offices. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026 The animals live on a massive estate that also houses Neill’s winery, Two Paddocks, which was founded in 1993 and based in Central Otago, New Zealand. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026 The castle also houses several famous artworks, including Michelangelo’s final work, the last Pietà sculpture. — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2026

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Noun

As is true for many other industries in China, intense competition at home is driving companies to expand globally.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026
Other companies that have ALPRs include Axon, PlateSmart, Innova Systems, Perceptics, and Jenoptik.

— Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026

Definition of companies

Noun

After all those conversations, one thing that has become clear is that families don’t expect Washington to fix everything.

— Kent Strang, Boston Herald, 26 July 2026
Treasury's default option right now is the SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF, and until families can actively choose between fund options, that's where contributions land.

— Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

Definition of families

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Related Ross first planted roots in West Palm Beach in 1997, starting a portfolio of projects that includes Class-A office buildings such as One Flagler and The Laurel luxury residences.

— Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2026
The redesign of the guestrooms and suites transformed each of these accommodations into the type of luxury urban residences that the Astor family might live in today.

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of residences

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The action would also allow all residents to get local, regional, state and federal agencies’ help with the financial aftermath that households and businesses now must deal with — utility bills, loss of wages and revenue — for weeks, if not months.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
The global economy – and American households – have already been dealing with over a year of tariff uncertainty.

— Rafael Nam, NPR, 25 July 2026

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Made up of vast mangrove forests, brackish marshlands, and tons of tiny islands, the refuge shelters a wide variety of animals, including American alligators and crocodiles, Florida panthers, manatees, river otters, bottle-nosed dolphins, and more than 200 species of migratory birds.

— Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
The film centers on Cheng Jun, a Chinese international student working the night shift at a 24-hour convenience store who forms an unlikely bond with a homeless elderly woman who shelters there each night.

— Jenny S. Li, Variety, 15 June 2026

Definition of shelters

Verb

Places like Los Angeles and Oakland have high permit fees and strict zoning that often confines cans to industrial areas.

— Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Feb. 2026
In an industry that often confines its actors, especially women and especially Black women, Hall continues to carve a path defined by risk, depth and courage.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025

Definition of confines

Noun

The coalition now spans chipmakers, cloud providers, security vendors, application companies and the venture firms behind them.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Max Pritt, an attorney for Boies Schiller Flexner who represents book authors in copyright litigation against AI firms, said the government is in the same boat.

— Kif Leswing,Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 25 July 2026