house

house n

1 a: a building (as a single or multiple family house, apartment, or hotel room) serving as living quarters and usu. including the curtilage

b: a building (as one's residence or a locked place of business) in which one is entitled to protection (as from warrantless searches and seizures) under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

2 a: a legislative assembly esp. that constitutes a division of a bicameral body

the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays — U.S. Constitution art. I

b: the building or chamber where such an assembly meets

c: a quorum of such an assembly