Crossword clues for houseful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
houseful \houseful\ n. as many as a house will accommodate; as, they entertained a houseful of guests.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from house (n.) + -ful.
Wiktionary
n. as many as a house will hold
WordNet
n. as many as a house will accommodate; "they entertained a houseful of guests"
Wikipedia
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.