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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
houseful
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A houseful of people watched me around the clock, which only made me more determined.
▪ Because we so easily could have a houseful of mud.
▪ I had a houseful of them.
▪ The house was mine, but I should not be able to keep a houseful of servants.
▪ We were three glowing faces and three pairs of shining eyes in a houseful of mad black dancing ghosts.
▪ You have to want a houseful of people in order to spend time at the stove and not resent it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
houseful

houseful \houseful\ n. as many as a house will accommodate; as, they entertained a houseful of guests.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
houseful

c.1300, from house (n.) + -ful.

Wiktionary
houseful

n. as many as a house will hold

WordNet
houseful

n. as many as a house will accommodate; "they entertained a houseful of guests"

Wikipedia
Houseful (2009 film)

Houseful is a 2009 Bengali language film directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay. In this film, the star Prosenjit Chatterjee's character is a movie director who creates artistic films that flop and are not selected for awards. After several tries and exhausting his own funds, he is forced to do commercial Bengali films. In this film Sreelekha Mitra has a guest appearance.

Usage examples of "houseful".

She had had a houseful of guests or had gone to other, uninhabited islands.

They died within three weeks of each other, and his mother inherited a houseful of Waterford glassware, Belleek china and other household impedimenta.

One of the reasons why he disliked Schmidt was that he blamed the old boy for luring me from the primrose path that led to the cottage door and the little frilly aprons and the houseful of babies.

Grace's mother had mellowed a little, Ericson decided, but not much: she still tried to rule the roost, she still behaved as if she were the only grown-up in a houseful of children.

By then we will have a houseful of wizardlings to care for them like Tam did.