Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for House (-s)
house (-s), n. [OE hús < Germanic.] (webplay: abode, assembled, body, bondage, brick, church, concerns, covering, devour, dwelling, earthly, edifice, enact, estates, faithful, God, good, grave, heavens, household, human, laws, living, lords, man, mansion, materials, Moses, order, place, residence, size, soul, station, stone, square, wealth, wood, world, worship).
- Biological family; ancestors and descendants.
- Home; dwelling; building; habitation for humanity.
- Nest; dwelling of a creature.
- Heaven; place in paradise; abode of the righteous dead.
- Theater audience; spectators in a playhouse.
- Tomb; grave; final resting place.
- Church; temple; tabernacle.
- Wealth; estate; possessions.
- Body; residence of the soul.
- Building for the keeping of plants.
- Earth; natural paradisiacal state of the earth.
- Phrase. “Light House”: coastal building that gives light and direction to ships.
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