n.
building
home
1) to build, put up a house
2) to redecorate, refurbish, remodel, renovate a house
3) to demolish, raze, tear down a house
4) to rent a house from smb.
5) to let (BE), rent out (AE) a house to smb.
6) a dilapidated, ramshackle house
7) an apartment (AE); brick; clapboard; country; detached; frame; manor (esp. BE); one-family, single; prefabricated; ranch (AE); rooming; row (AE), terraced (BE); semidetached; summer; town house
8) a haunted house
9) (AE) a fraternity; sorority house
housekeeping
10) to keep house for smb.
theater
11) to bring the house down ('to win thunderous approval')
12) an empty; full, packed house (to play to a packed house)
13) an opera house
chamber of a parliament
14) a lower; upper house
firm
15) a banking; discount; gambling; mail-order; pharmaceutical; publishing house; slaughterhouse
place providing a public service
16) a boarding; halfway; safe; settlement house
bar
(BE)
17) a free; public; tied house
shelter
18) a reptile house (at a zoo)
misc.
19) a house of correction/detention ('a prison'); a disorderly house ('a brothel'); (AE) a station house ('a police station'); drinks are on the house ('drinks are served free'); an open house ('informal hospitality'); ('a residence being sold or rented out that is open for inspection')