house cat
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- noun
- /ˈhaʊs kæt/
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gato doméstico
- It's a house cat.
Normal cats, all kinds of cats, Saber toothed cats, and also domestic house cats.
- Normal cats, all kinds of cats, Saber toothed cats, and also domestic house cats.
- So we got to relearn that just like the Mountain Lion is not quite like the house cat.
- I've heard tree hoppers produce things like sound like a a lion purring rather than a house cat.
- Now I'm like a domesticated house cat are used to dogs.
- Handsome cougar slain in the neighborhood and you little house cat sphinxes perplexing the sun.
- Maybe we could do Gordon Ryan versus a house cat.
- And how much of his dark matter, how much of his dark energy, how much information do you think is required to to be a house cat?
Examples
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I'm not a street cat, I'm a house cat.
Fiction book (2000) -
House cats may spend more time in the company of neighbors than we think.
Fiction book (1998) -
Live the life of a house cat.
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A house cat out here.
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One evening, I saw our house cat leap up and pull a bat out of the air.
Fiction book (2001) -
The house cat is lounging on the table comfortably.
Fiction book (1999) -
Now we are waiting by Barbara's woodstove for a house cat to want out.
Fiction book (1998) -
Two happy decades behind her, and she remains as serene as a sun-soaked house cat.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm a house cat.
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We adopted a friendly house cat from the local shelter last week.
Synonyms
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A small, furry pet or a large wild animal like a lion
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A house cat people call in a friendly way, often by children
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A pet cat people call in a friendly way to children
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A small furry animal people keep as a pet that often catches mice
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A small furry animal people keep as a pet that often catches mice
A domestic cat with dark stripes like a tiger
Antonyms
How Domesticated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a domesticated cat kept in the home' is directly derivable from combining 'house' (home) and 'cat' (feline); the compound follows a standard noun-noun compositional pattern. This construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g., equivalents like 'gato de casa') and would be recognizable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
House cat comes from the simple picture of a cat that lives in the house instead of outside. So it now means a 'pet' or 'domesticated' cat that stays at home.