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House

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.

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Abode 76% connected

of Abide

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Accommodate 76% connected

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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Admit 76% connected

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

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Audience 76% connected

The act of hearing; attention to sounds.

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Building 76% connected

of Build

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Business 76% connected

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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Community 76% connected

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.

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Concern 76% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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Domicile 76% connected

An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

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Dwelling 76% connected

of Dwell

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Edifice 76% connected

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehou…

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Family 76% connected

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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Folk 76% connected

Alt. of Folks

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Habitation 76% connected

The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Home 76% connected

See Homelyn.

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Kinsfolk 76% connected

Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families.

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Legislature 76% connected

The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.

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Management 76% connected

The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as,…

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Phratry 76% connected

A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Region 76% connected

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general…

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Sept 76% connected

A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

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Shelter 76% connected

That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.

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Unit 76% connected

A single thing or person.

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Manner of action 4

Accommodate 76% connected

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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Chamber 76% connected

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

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Home 76% connected

See Homelyn.

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Lodge 76% connected

A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

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Bagnio 76% connected

A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.

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Bungalow 76% connected

A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.

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Cabin 76% connected

A cottage or small house; a hut.

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Chalet 76% connected

A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.

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Corporation 76% connected

A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society ha…

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Cottage 76% connected

A small house; a cot; a hut.

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Dealer 76% connected

One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in d…

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Duplex 76% connected

Double; twofold.

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Farmhouse 76% connected

A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

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Gatehouse 76% connected

A house connected or associated with a gate.

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Hacienda 76% connected

A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in…

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Hall 76% connected

A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

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Lodge 76% connected

A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

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Manse 76% connected

A dwelling house, generally with land attached.

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Mansion 76% connected

A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.

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Opera 76% connected

A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, d…

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Publisher 76% connected

One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine.

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Residence 76% connected

The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a…

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Royalty 76% connected

The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty.

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Smokehouse 76% connected

A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.

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Soddy 76% connected

Consisting of sod; covered with sod; turfy.

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Villa 76% connected

A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.

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Derivationally related 4

Domiciliation 74% connected

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

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Domiciliation 74% connected

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

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Housing 74% connected

of House

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Housing 74% connected

of House

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Component part 14

Attic 70% connected

Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical;…

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Circle 70% connected

A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the ce…

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Claque 70% connected

A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.

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Garret 70% connected

A turret; a watchtower.

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Greenroom 70% connected

The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.

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Library 70% connected

A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

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Loft 70% connected

That which is lifted up; an elevation.

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Orchestra 70% connected

The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by th…

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Parquet 70% connected

A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the o…

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Parterre 70% connected

An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

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Pit 70% connected

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

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Porch 70% connected

A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting w…

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Stage 70% connected

A floor or story of a house.

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Study 70% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Containing whole 1

Zodiac 70% connected

An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16? or 18? broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It comprises the twelve constellations, wh…

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Synonym 10

Domiciliate 92% connected

To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

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Family 92% connected

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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Firm 92% connected

Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.

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Home 92% connected

See Homelyn.

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Household 92% connected

Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.

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Mansion 92% connected

A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.

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Menage 92% connected

See Manage.

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Sign 92% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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Theater 92% connected

Alt. of Theatre

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Theatre 92% connected

An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in…

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