CASA (CAW-suh)
Spanish
word for house
Common clues: Acapulco abode; Home, por favor;
Honduran house; Hombre's home; Spanish house; Julio's home;
Hidalgo home; Latin quarters?
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
3 times a year
Frequency
in English language:
22064 / 86800
Video: Tour
de mi casa
Humans construct houses primarily as dwelling-spaces for human habitation and pets. Such dwellings generally feature enclosing walls and a roof to protect against precipitation, wind, heat, cold and intruders. Animals may often live inside a house as well, both domestic pets and "unwanted" animals (such as mice living in the walls). The word "house" may also apply to a building provided to shelter animals, especially within a zoo.
The house often provides a permanent residence for a family or for a similar social unit. When occupying a house routinely as a dwelling, English-speaking people may call this building their "home". People may leave their house most of the day for work and recreation, but typically return 'home", to their house, at least for sleeping.
A house generally has at least one entrance, usually in the form of a door or a portal — but some early houses, such as those at Catal Huyuk, used roofs and ladders for access. Many houses have back doors that open into what some English-speakers call the backyard and others the back garden. When built in appropriate climates, houses may have any number of windows to let in natural sunlight and to provide views of the outside.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "House".
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