Synonyms of housing

housing 1 of 2

noun

ˈhau̇-ziŋ 

as in casing

something that encloses another thing especially to protect it

a camera with a waterproof housing for taking pictures of coral reefs and other underwater features

Synonyms & Similar Words

• casing
• sheath
• covering
• case
• cover
• shell
• hull
• jacket
• capsule
• armor
• pod
• cartridge
• coating
• shield
• cocoon
• plate
• package
• house
• encasement
• plating
• husk
• cassette
• wrapper
• mail
• skin
• facing
• crust
• envelope
• bark
• backing
• carapace
• hide
• panoply
• cuticle
• coverture

housing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of house

1

as in lodging

to provide with living quarters or shelter

some of the freshmen were temporarily housed in local motels while the new dorm was being finished

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lodging
• accommodating
• sheltering
• boarding
• camping
• rooming
• roofing
• billeting
• bunking
• quartering
• harboring
• bestowing
• domiciling
• taking in
• encamping
• securing
• chambering
• homing
• bivouacking
• putting up
• stabling
• shedding
• roosting
• tenting
• bedding (down)
• ensconcing
• barracking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ejecting
• evicting

2

as in surrounding

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers

the famous document is housed in a special display case

Synonyms & Similar Words

• surrounding
• enclosing
• including
• encasing
• confining
• caging
• closeting
• enveloping
• hedging
• boxing (in)
• penning
• cooping (up)
• encaging
• mewing (up)
• immuring
• fencing (in)
• hemming (in)
• walling (in)
• restricting
• containing
• bounding
• corralling
• encompassing
• limiting
• circumscribing
• encircling
• ringing
• enframing
• encapsulating
• enfolding
• framing
• armoring
• cocooning
• ensheathing
• encysting
• encapsuling
• enlacing
• ensphering
• enwombing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of housing

Noun

At an October debate, Bass pointed out that Raman, as chair of the city council’s housing and homelessness committee, had repeatedly approved spending on Inside Safe, the very program Raman now criticizes as expensive and insufficiently accountable. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026

In 2018, reporters visited the Ursula detention center in South Texas, an old warehouse housing hundreds of children in a series of cages bound by metal fencing. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

Verb

Without such remedies, the turbines risked drastically spiking pollution in already vulnerable neighborhoods housing predominantly Black communities nearby, the NAACP argued. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026

Sybille Roger-Vasselin’s store near Place de la République, housing her ready-to-wear label Petite Mendigote, was looted on Sunday. — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026