English Explanatory Dictionary

housing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
  2. Residences, collectively.
  3. A mechanical component's container or covering.
  4. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
  5. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
  6. The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
  7. A niche for a statue.
  8. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
  9. A houseline.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of house

Pronunciation

/ˈhaʊzɪŋ/ /ˈhaʊsɪŋ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-housing.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-housing2.wav

Word forms

housing housings

Etymology

From Middle English housynge, housinge, from housen (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house + -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Old Frisian hūsinge (whence Saterland Frisian Huzenge); compare also Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”), Swedish inhysing (“housing”).

Synonyms

accommodation lodging case casing cover covering lid

Antonyms

nonhousing

Related words

house

Derived words

affordable housing bell housing bellhousing cohousing council housing ecohousing inclusionary housing microhousing open housing public housing social housing subsidized housing tract housing housing bubble housing commission housing estate housing project housing stock housing unit houso security housing unit
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