Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 A house habitually kept open to callers. 2 An event, often in one's home, at which there are few restrictions regarding who and how many may attend. 3 An event during which a facility or institution is open to the public for inspection or tour. 4 (context chiefly US Canada and Australia English) A period of time, usually several hours in a day, during which a house which is for sale is open for inspection or tour by interested parties. 5 (context US English) A casual school event where the school invites parents or guardians to come and tour their child's school, classrooms, and allow them to meet their child's teachers.
WordNet
n. an informal party of people with hospitality for all comers
Wikipedia
Open House or Open house may refer to:
Open House was a 2000 novel by U.S. author Elizabeth Berg. It was also an Oprah's Book Club selection in 2000.
Open House is an American sitcom that aired on Fox from August 27, 1989 to July 21, 1990. The series is a spin-off of the Fox series Duet.
Open House was a 1964 BBC TV series presented by Gay Byrne, Peter Haigh and Robert Robinson.
Open House is a 2004 real estate musical film starring Hedy Burress, Ann Magnuson, Anthony Rapp, Sally Kellerman, Jenna Leigh Green and Kellie Martin, and directed by Dan Mirvish, a co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival. It played on the film festival circuit in 2004–05 and was released on DVD through Wellspring Media. All the actors sang live on set, rather than lip synching.
Open House is an afternoon television show broadcast on RTÉ One between 1999 and 2004. The last episode was broadcast in 2004. It was presented by Mary Kennedy and Marty Whelan and focused on lifestyle, cookery and human interest issues. Presenters included Dermot O'Neill, the popular gardening expert. The show was broadcast five days a week (Monday to Friday), and was also transmitted to the United Kingdom via Tara Television.
Open House replaced Live at 3, and was itself replaced by The Afternoon Show.
It was popular with students and rapper Coolio laughed when two of the show's researchers replaced missing dancers.
An open house (also known as open day and at-home day) is an event held at an institution where its doors are open to the general public to allow people to have a look around it in order to gain information on it. These are often held at schools and universities in most areas to attract prospective students, familiarize them (and their parents) with facilities, allow new students to become familiar with facilities and meet others, or to open informal communication channels between school staff and students and parents.
Open House is an EP by Christian artist Jaci Velasquez. It was released on October 30, 2007. It contains a brand new Christmas song, another previously recorded, two traditional Holiday songs and an exclusive interview with Velasquez.
Open House is a 1987 horror film written and directed by Jag Mundhra, and co-written by David M. Evans, and starring Joseph Bottoms, Adrienne Barbeau and Mary Stavin.
Open House was a 1952 Canadian television series which presented segments of interest to women, including cooking, fabrics, interior design, exercise, fashion, books and current events. The show was originally hosted by Corinne Conley. Later, the show was co-hosted by a male/female couple including Anna Cameron and Fred Davis were the television couple, and their place was taken, starting in 1960, by Gwen Grant and Max Ferguson.
Open House is a live three-hour talkback Christian radio show produced and broadcast from the studios of Hope 103.2 in Sydney, Australia. It began airing in 2006.
The aim of the program is to promote spiritual growth and Christian activities by exploring life, faith and culture. The show includes interviews, film and media reviews, and expert opinion on daily issues.
Open House is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1960, but not released on the Blue Note label until 1968. The album didn't appear on CD until being reissued in 1992, as a twofer which also included Plain Talk, compiling all the recordings from the session.
"Open House" is the third episode of the fourth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 36th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on AMC in the United States on July 31, 2011. In the episode, Walter and Skyler advance their plans to buy a car wash as a front organization, while Jesse holds increasingly darker parties to distract from his guilt for having killed Gale. Meanwhile, Marie starts stealing to cope with the difficult recovery of her husband Hank, who is asked to offer his advice regarding Gale's murder investigation.
The episode was written by Sam Catlin and directed by filmmaker David Slade, marking his first time directing for television. It featured guest appearances by Nigel Gibbs and stand-up comedian Bill Burr, the latter of whom specifically sought to appear on the show. The footage shown from the first-person perspective of Gus' camera is actual footage from the real camera. Marie's return to the kleptomania she demonstrated in the first season was conceived early during brainstorming sessions for the third season.
Breaking Bad music supervisor Thomas Golubić sought to select music for Jesse's party sequences appropriate for the dark tone of the scenes, including the song " If I Had a Heart" by Swedish musician Fever Ray. "Open House" was viewed by an estimated 1.714 million viewers and received a 0.7 Nielsen rating among adults between the ages of 18 and 49. The episode received generally positive reviews.
"Open House" is the seventh episode of the first season of the television series American Horror Story, which premiered on the network FX on November 16, 2011. The episode was written by co-creator and executive producer Brad Falchuk and was directed by Tim Hunter. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV).
In this episode, Violet ( Taissa Farmiga) is comforted by a revelation while Vivien ( Connie Britton) learns she is pregnant with twins.
In 2012, this episode was nominated for a Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie.
Open House was an early Australian television series, which aired on Melbourne station GTV-9 from 25 August 1957 to 6 April 1958. The hour-long series aired at 4:45PM on Sundays, and was replaced on the schedule with In Melbourne Today. Like most early Australian series, the series aired in only a single city.
Presenters on the series included Jim Wood, Jane Edwards and Peter Lunn, and Hal Todd, with Gretta Miers appearing on the last few episodes. Todd and Miers continued onto In Melbourne Today.
The series was of a magazine-format, with interviews, music and guest artists.
"Open House" is the third episode of third season of the American television drama series The Americans, and the 29th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on February 11, 2015 in the United States on FX.
Open House is the directorial debut of Andrew Paquin. The film features a cameo by the director's sister Anna Paquin and her husband Stephen Moyer.
Usage examples of "open house".
It was as good as telling her that she should be a good girl and continue to keep open house for him and maybe some day.
She kept open house, her side board and her servants at the call of her friends, but she was quite capable of withdrawing herself, without explanation, once things were moving well, to be found later by some one who was leaving, writing letters, fussing with her endless bills, or sending a check she could not possibly afford to some one in want whom she happened to have heard about.