What does housing mean?

Definitions for housing
ˈhaʊ zɪŋhous·ing

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word housing.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. housing, lodging, living accommodationsnoun

    structures collectively in which people are housed

  2. housingnoun

    a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component

  3. caparison, trapping, housingnoun

    stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

Wiktionary

  1. housingnoun

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

  2. housingnoun

    Residences, collectively.

    She lives in low-income housing.

  3. housingnoun

    A mechanical component's container or covering.

    The gears were grinding against their housing.

  4. housingnoun

    A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

  5. housingnoun

    An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Housingnoun

    Etymology: from house.

    London is supplied with people to increase its inhabitants, according to the increase of housing. John Graunt.

ChatGPT

  1. housing

    Housing refers to the provision of shelter or accommodation for individuals, families, or communities. It encompasses various types of dwellings, such as houses, apartments, condos, and other residential structures, that are designed and built for people to live in. Housing fulfills the basic need for shelter and serves as a place where individuals and families can live, sleep, relax, and engage in daily activities while maintaining privacy, safety, and comfort. It typically includes amenities and utilities necessary for basic living, such as electricity, water, heating/cooling systems, and sanitation facilities. Housing can be either rented or owned, and it plays a crucial role in establishing communities, supporting social interactions, and contributing to individuals' well-being and quality of life.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Housing

    of House

  2. Housingnoun

    the act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation

  3. Housingnoun

    that which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively

  4. Housingnoun

    the space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another

  5. Housingnoun

    a niche for a statue

  6. Housingnoun

    a frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc

  7. Housingnoun

    that portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel

  8. Housingnoun

    a covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up

  9. Housingnoun

    a houseline. See Houseline

  10. Housingnoun

    a cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings

  11. Housingnoun

    an appendage to the hames or collar of a harness

  12. Etymology: [From Houss.]

Freebase

  1. Housing

    Housing generally refers to the social problem of insuring that members of society have a home to live in, whether this is a house, or some other kind of dwelling, lodging, or shelter. Many governments have a department that deals with housing, such as the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Housing

    howz′ing, n. an ornamental covering for a horse: a saddle-cloth: (pl.) the trappings of a horse. [O. Fr. housse, a mantle, of Teut. origin.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Housing

    Living facilities for humans.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. housing

    A small line formed of three fine strands, smaller than rope yarn; principally used for seizings of the block-strops, fastening the clues of sails to their bolt-ropes, and other purposes. (See MARLINE, TWINE.)

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. housing

    Cover or cloth over or under a horse’s saddle used for cleanliness, or as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddle-cloth; a horse-cloth.

Editors Contribution

  1. housingnoun

    A type of house, property or appropriate structure for a person, people or family to reside at

    Housing is a vital human right for every human being, we all have a right to housing as a human right


    Submitted by MaryC on January 7, 2020  


  2. housingverb

    Verb form of the word house.

    To build housing is easy as it creates a form of human rights, employment and certainty.


    Submitted by MaryC on July 19, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'housing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1703

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'housing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #989

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'housing' in Nouns Frequency: #711

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of housing in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of housing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of housing in a Sentence

  1. Mike Reynolds:

    If all of the soldiers in all of the armies in all of the world, were to put down their weapons and pick up tools and start making sustainable housing for all the people in the world, life would just begin on this planet

  2. Bob Pinnegar:

    Each passing month further escalates the risk of losing an ever increasing amount of rental housing, ultimately jeopardizing the availability of safe, sustainable and affordable housing for all Americans, flawed eviction moratoriums leave renters with insurmountable debt and housing providers holding the bag as our nation's housing affordability crisis spirals into a housing affordability disaster.

  3. Thomas Sowell:

    Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

  4. Von Spakovsky:

    They are using federal housing money intended to improve the bad housing of poor Americans as the lever to force compliance with these new regulations, but that money is most needed in blighted, inner city urban neighborhoods, where there are a large number of African Americans. This federal utopian vision will divert that needed federal money into suburbs where it is not needed, leaving poor Americans living in substandard, terrible housing.

  5. Danya Keene:

    Even though the conditions in many public housing developments are in dramatic need of improvement, we do know that public housing provides an important source of stable and affordable housing, particularly for the poorest of the poor.

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