Housing Definition

houzĭng
noun
The act of providing shelter or lodging.
Webster's New World
Shelter or lodging; accommodation in houses, apartments, etc.
The housing crisis.
Webster's New World
A place to live; a dwelling.
She came to college early to look for housing.
American Heritage
A shelter; covering.
Webster's New World
Houses collectively.
Webster's New World
verb

Present participle of house.

We are housing the Wik* servers in Florida.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Housing

Noun

Singular:
housing
Plural:
housings

Origin of Housing

  • From Middle English housinge, howsynge, from Old English *hūsung (“housing”), from Old English hūsian (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house +‎ -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”), Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English house from Old French houce from Medieval Latin hucia, hulcia, hultia protective covering of Germanic origin kel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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