Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The amount or number that a house can hold or accommodate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A full complement for a house; as much or as many as a house will hold or accommodate, or as it requires: as, a houseful of goods, of furniture, or of people.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun as many as a house will accommodate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun as many as a
house will hold
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun as many as a house will accommodate
Etymologies
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Examples
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Around 20 theatres in Bangalore where the film was being shown had 'houseful' boards put up.
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Around 20 theatres in Bangalore where the film was being shown had 'houseful' boards put up.
Analysis 2010
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But it picked up after a few days, and after a month the cafe was back to its usual 'houseful' self for most of the 19 hours it remains open (it closes only between 1. 30-6.30 am).
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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It was declared a hit because all shows were 'houseful', "says Kumar.
NAACHGAANA 2008
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Just for the record, I am a bleeding-heart-liberal-Massachusetts-Democrat, raised with a houseful of lesbians and arrested at age eight for protesting the Vietnam War with my dad.
Tom Matlack: Goodness Isn't a Policy Tom Matlack 2010
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Just for the record, I am a bleeding-heart-liberal-Massachusetts-Democrat, raised with a houseful of lesbians and arrested at age eight for protesting the Vietnam War with my dad.
Tom Matlack: Goodness Isn't a Policy Tom Matlack 2010
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We moved a houseful of furniture to our home in Michoaan and what was manufactured in the US cost more than those items made in China.
Page 2 2009
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Just for the record, I am a bleeding-heart-liberal-Massachusetts-Democrat, raised with a houseful of lesbians and arrested at age eight for protesting the Vietnam War with my dad.
Tom Matlack: Goodness Isn't a Policy Tom Matlack 2010
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Amidst a houseful of mourners grieving their beloved, my mother managed to phone me and whisper that this woman, who was forty-one, recently had twins.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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We moved a houseful of furniture to our home in Michoaan and what was manufactured in the US cost more than those items made in China.
Page 2 2009
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