housed
housed — verb
- housedpresent simple I / you / we / they
- houseds3rd person singular
- houseding-ing form
- housededpast simple
1. gave somebody somewhere to stay — usually as a planned arrangement by an organis
gave somebody somewhere to stay — usually as a planned arrangement by an organisation, a city, or a household — so that people or animals had shelter and a roof over their head.
The city housed three hundred earthquake survivors in a converted school gym for two months.
passive-friendly: housed + people + in + place
After the floods, Dewi's family was housed in a small wooden cabin near the river.
passive: be housed in + place
The animal shelter has housed over four thousand abandoned dogs since it opened in 2010.
Kevin housed two exchange students from Seoul in his spare bedroom last summer.
Refugees from the conflict were housed at a former army base outside the town.
- accommodated
more formal; emphasises providing space rather than a long-term home
- sheltered
emphasises protection from danger or weather, often temporary
- lodged
formal or older usage; usually short-term paid stay
文法句型
house + somebody
be housed in / at + place
用法筆記
Frequently appears in the passive (be housed in / at), especially in news writing about displaced people, students, or animals. Subject of the active form is usually an institution (a city, school, shelter, charity) rather than a single person.
常見錯誤
2. held an object, machine, collection, or organisation inside a building, case, or
held an object, machine, collection, or organisation inside a building, case, or other structure that surrounded it and kept it safe.
The old chapel housed a collection of seventeenth-century manuscripts before the fire of 1998.
building + housed + collection
Cyrus discovered that the wooden box housed his grandfather's gold pocket watch.
container + housed + object
The factory was housed in a long red-brick building beside the canal.
Tiny silicon chips housed the entire memory of the original spacecraft computer.
For decades, the museum's prehistoric bones were housed in glass cases on the second floor.
文法句型
house + something
be housed in + container / building
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: here the object is a thing (machine, collection, document, organ), not a person or animal. Often appears in passive 'was/were housed in', especially when describing where institutions, exhibits, or hardware are physically located.
常見錯誤
housed — adjective
- housedpositive
- housedercomparative
- housedestsuperlative
1. having been given a place to live, often used in social-policy or news writing t
having been given a place to live, often used in social-policy or news writing to describe whether people have proper homes or are still without one.
Newly housed families in the district receive a small grant for furniture and kitchen basics.
attributive: newly housed + people
Many of the city's elderly residents remain poorly housed despite the new building programme.
predicative: be + poorly housed
Isabela works with adequately housed but financially struggling tenants in the south of the city.
The charity reports that over two thousand previously homeless people are now stably housed.
- sheltered
broader; includes temporary shelter, not only permanent homes
- accommodated
more formal; focuses on the arrangement of space
文法句型
newly / properly / poorly housed + people
be housed in + conditions
用法筆記
Almost always carries an adverb (newly, poorly, badly, adequately, properly, stably) that grades the quality of the housing situation. Without such an adverb, the form sounds like the past participle of the verb instead.