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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house + -ful
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