Need another word that means the same as “housing”? Find 20 synonyms and 30 related words for “housing” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Housing” are: living accommodations, lodging, caparison, trapping, homes, houses, places of residence, buildings, casing, covering, case, cover, encasement, container, enclosure, holder, sheath, jacket, shell, capsule
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “housing” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| buildings | The occupants of a building. There was a three-story building on the corner. |
| caparison | Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse. |
| capsule | A small container. A capsule review of the movie. |
| case | The quantity contained in a case. A murder case. |
| casing | A cover or shell that protects or encloses something. A waterproof casing. |
| container | A discrete environment set up within an operating system in which one or more applications may be run, typically assigned only those resources necessary for the application to function correctly. The cakes will keep for up to two weeks if kept in an airtight container. |
| cover | A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something. A manhole cover. |
| covering | The act of protecting something by covering it. Under a covering of dust. |
| encasement | The act of enclosing something in a case. |
| enclosure | Something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter. The nuns kept strict enclosure. |
| holder | A smallholder. I replaced the phone in its holder. |
| homes | A social unit living together. They raise money to provide homes for the homeless. |
| houses | A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families. |
| jacket | A jacket potato. Potatoes cooked in their jackets. |
| living accommodations | The condition of living or the state of being alive. |
| lodging | The act of lodging. He was looking for lodgings and a job. |
| places of residence | A job in an organization. |
| sheath | A close-fitting cover for the blade of a knife or sword. The fatty sheath around nerve fibres. |
| shell | Something resembling or likened to a shell because of its shape or its function as an outer case. Baked pastry shells filled with cheese. |
| trapping | A light two-wheeled carriage. |
| accommodation | The provision of a room or lodgings. The cost includes flights hotel accommodation and transport. |
| apartment | A block of apartments. The Imperial apartments. |
| bedside | The space beside a bed (used especially with reference to an invalid’s bed. He was summoned to the bedside of a dying man. |
| berth | Secure in or as if in a berth or dock. They planned to berth HMS Impregnable at Portsmouth. |
| boarding | The action of getting on or into a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle. The advantages of boarding. |
| caravan | Travel in a caravan. A caravan of cars and trucks. |
| census | Conduct a census. They censused the deer in the forest. |
| density | The degree of compactness of a substance. A density of 10 000 per square mile. |
| doorstep | (of a journalist) wait uninvited outside the home of (someone) in order to obtain an interview or photograph. Doorstep sandwiches. |
| duplex | Having two parts used technically of a device or process duplex adj allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously. Duplex telephony. |
| estate | A class or order regarded as forming part of the body politic in particular in Britain one of the three groups constituting Parliament now the Lords spiritual the heads of the Church the Lords temporal the peerage and the Commons They are also known as the three estates. Lucy and Tony live on an estate in West London. |
| furnished | Provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority. A furnished apartment. |
| hectare | A unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters. |
| homestead | Settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead. |
| hostess | A woman host. The perfect dinner party hostess. |
| hotel | A building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services. A five star hotel. |
| house | The management of a gambling house or casino. A house of 45 boarders. |
| inhabitant | A person or animal that lives in or occupies a place. |
| invulnerable | Impossible to harm or damage. Gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs. |
| lodge | Be a lodger stay temporarily. The variety is high yielding but it has mostly lodged. |
| lodging | The act of lodging. A fee for board and lodging. |
| neighborhood | People living near one another. An ethnic neighborhood. |
| population | A community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs. Areas of sparse population. |
| realty | A person’s real property. |
| semi | A semi final. She pulled into the path of a semi. |
| sheltered | Protected from difficulties or unpleasant realities. I was a mathematics don at Cambridge living a rather sheltered life. |
| stationary | (of a planet) having no apparent motion in longitude. A car collided with a stationary vehicle. |
| there | At that point (in speech, performance, writing, etc. You can take it from there. |
| treetop | The uppermost part of a tree. |
| unit | The smallest measure of investment in a unit trust. Units of nucleic acids. |
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