A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion. / (by extension, often attributive) Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.

(UK politics) The lower house of the British Parliament; a session of the house. / (Canada, politics) The lower house of the Canadian Parliament.

(Canada slang, humorous euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

A house habitually kept open to callers. / An event, often in one's home, at which there are few restrictions regarding who and how many may attend.

(usually in the plural, Britain) Point awarded to a member of the house of a grammar school or public school for sporting and other achievement.

The building in which a National (or State) Parliament convenes.

a company employed in fashion design; a couturier

A person who stays in your house to mind it while you are away.

A child's play house.

(law) Confinement of a person to his or her residence, sometimes with a limited travel allowance, ordered by a judge or other authority as a more lenient alternative to imprisonment.