The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woodhouse \Wood"house`\, n. A house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered from the weather.
Wiktionary
n. A house or shed for storing (chopped) wood
Wikipedia
Woodhouse may refer to:
Woodhouse is an English surname. It is of the same etymology, but to be distinguished from, the surname of the Wodehouse family of Norfolk.
The family of Woodhouse of Womburne Woodhouse originates with Benedict Wodehouse of Womburne (fl. 1550); the spelling Woodhouse was used from the 17th century. The modern surname may derive from any of several places called Woodhouse, Wodehouse in England and people who share the surname are not necessarily related to the Womburne Woodhouse family, or to one another.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Barbara Woodhouse (1910–1988), British dog trainer and television personality
- Brad Woodhouse, communications director of the United States Democratic National Committee
- Charles Woodhouse (1893–1978), British admiral
- Chase G. Woodhouse (1890–1984), Canadian educator and (United States) congresswoman
- Christopher Woodhouse, 6th Baron Terrington (born 1946), British urologist
- Curtis Woodhouse (born 1980), English footballer and boxer
- Danielle Woodhouse (born 1969), Australian water polo player
- Fred Woodhouse (born 1912), Australian athlete
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George Woodhouse (1924–1988), English cricketer and brewer
- Hall & Woodhouse, English brewery, owned by the above
- Greg Woodhouse (born 1960), Australian footballer
- Hedley Woodhouse (1920–1984), Canadian jockey
- Henry Woodhouse (disambiguation)
- James Woodhouse, (1770–1809), United States chemist
- James Woodhouse, 1st Baron Terrington, (1852–1921), British politician
- John Woodhouse (1884–1955), English bishop
- Joyce Woodhouse (born 1944), American politician
- Mark Woodhouse (basketball) (born 1982), British basketball player
- Mark Woodhouse (cricketer) (born 1967), Zimbabwean cricketer
- Martin Woodhouse (1932–2011), British author and scriptwriter
- Michael Woodhouse (born c. 1965), New Zealand politician
- Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington (1917–2001), British politician and writer
- Owen Woodhouse (1916–2014), New Zealand judge
- Robert Woodhouse (1773–1827), English mathematician
- Rob Woodhouse (born 1966), Australian Olympic swimmer turned company director
- Robyn Woodhouse (born 1943), Australian high jumper
- Samuel Washington Woodhouse (1821–1904), American surgeon, explorer and naturalist
- Stan Woodhouse (1899–1977), English footballer
- Thomas Woodhouse (died 1573), English Roman Catholic martyr
- Tristram Woodhouse (born 1974), Australian field hockey player
- Vera Woodhouse (1889–1956), British politician
- Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872–1951), acclaimed harpsichordist
- William Woodhouse (cricketer) (1856–1938), English cricketer
- William Woodhouse (artist) (1857–1939), English artist
- William Woodhouse (MP) (before 1517-64), MP for Great Yarmouth, Norwich, and Norfolk
- William Woodhouse (MP for Aldeburgh), MP for Aldeburgh 1604–1621
- William John Woodhouse (1866–1937), English classical scholar and author
fictional characters
- Emma Woodhouse, eponymous heroine of Jane Austen's novel Emma
- Woodhouse, valet to the title character in the animated series Archer
Usage examples of "woodhouse".
The rest of the people named are other neighbours and friends, one of them, Mr Woodhouse, being an old gentleman of valetudinarian habits.
But Rodion, tight lipped as he carried the woman out of the woodhouse, was feeling all the impotence and rage that only someone under the yoke of serfdom could feel.
And there beyond I see the red and silver of the Worsleys of Apuldercombe, who like myself are of Hampshire lineage, Close behind us is the moline cross of the gallant William Molyneux, and beside it the bloody chevrons of the Norfork Woodhouses, with the amulets of the Musgraves of Westmoreland.
Here were the gold mullets of the Pakingtons, the sable and ermine of the Mackworths, the scarlet bars of the Wakes, the gold and blue of the Grosvenors, the cinque-foils of the Cliftons, the annulets of the Musgraves, the silver pinions of the Beauchamps, the crosses of the Molineaux, the bloody chevron of the Woodhouses, the red and silver of the Worsleys, the swords of the Clarks, the boars'-heads of the Lucies, the crescents of the Boyntons, and the wolf and dagger of the Lipscombs.
Here were the gold mullets of the Pakingtons, the sable and ermine of the Mackworths, the scarlet bars of the Wakes, the gold and blue of the Grosvenors, the cinque-foils of the Cliftons, the annulets of the Musgraves, the silver pinions of the Beauchamps, the crosses of the Molineux the bloody chevron of the Woodhouses, the red and silver of the Worsleys, the swords of the Clarks, the boars'-heads of the Lucies, the crescents of the Boyntons, and the wolf and dagger of the Lipscombs.
Woodhouse, of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense-- and had Mr.
Exuberance and Hall and Woodhouse best bitter was a mixture to be wary of, but one of the first effects it had is to stop you being wary of things, and the point at which Arthur should have stopped and explained no more was the point at which he started instead to get inventive.
Woodhouse should dine out, on the 24th of December) had been spent by Harriet at Hartfield, and she had gone home so much indisposed with a cold, that, but for her own earnest wish of being nursed by Mrs.
Another favorite was gone, as was my best-remembered of the outbuildings: a whitewashed combination toolshed/torture-chamber between the woodhouse and the privy in the slaves' quarters, where in my tenth year a laureled, loose-toga'd lady, my music teacher, whom I'd threatened to punish for cracking my knuckles with a ruler, had led me, put aside her five-stringed lyre among the rakes and dusty amphorae, knelt sweating to embrace my knees, and -- while bees droned in the lattice as if on an ordinary summer afternoon -- purchased clemency at a surprising price set by herself.
Woodhouse would have been miserable had his daughter attempted it, and she was therefore safe from either exciting or receiving unpleasant and most unsuitable ideas.
Woodhouse having, as usual, tried to persuade his daughter to stay behind with all her children, was obliged to see the whole party set off, and return to his lamentations over the destiny of poor Isabella.