house vs rest home

house

noun
  • Size and quality of residential accommodations. 

  • House music. 

  • A workhouse. 

  • An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. 

  • A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. 

  • A theatre. 

  • An apartment building within a public housing estate. 

  • One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. 

  • A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. 

  • The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. 

  • A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. 

  • A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof. 

  • The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. 

  • Lotto; bingo. 

  • A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). 

  • A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household. 

  • A small stand of trees in a swamp. 

  • A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku. 

  • The people who live in a house; a household. 

  • A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these. 

  • A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. 

  • The fourth Lenormand card. 

  • A place of rest or repose. 

  • A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. 

verb
  • To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses. 

  • To admit to residence; to harbor. 

  • To contain or cover mechanical parts. 

  • To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole. 

  • To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge. 

  • To eat. 

  • To keep within a structure or container. 

  • To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe. 

rest home

noun
  • A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disabilities. 

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