Housing

Quick meaning: Housing is a noun meaning (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

Meaning

(uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.
2. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
3. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
4. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
5. A niche for a statue.
6. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
7. (architecture) 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.

Example Sentences

She lives in low-income housing.

The gears were grinding against their housing.

We are housing the company's servers in Florida.

Word Forms

• housings

Synonyms for housing

Depending on context, synonyms include accommodation, lodging, case, casing, cover, covering.

Antonyms for housing

Common opposites include nonhousing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lodging, trapping, caparison, dwelling, room, residence.

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